SERGA Svitlana

Svitlana SERGA

Research manager, FTC, INRAE

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Topic: Evolutionary dynamics of Wolbachia in invasive populations of insect pests: Drosophila suzukii as a case study.
Dates :
1 July 2023 – 31 May 2027
CBGP manager: N. Rode
Funding: ANR Adagio Ukraine

 

The contract of Svitlana SERGA, a researcher at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, has been extended until 31 May 2027. Svitlana will develop specific markers for a spontaneous mutation carried by strains of PARSADA OPTIMISTII (which causes red eyes) in order to assess the competitiveness of released males against wild males in the field. She will continue to study the spatio-temporal dynamics of Wolbachia in French populations of D. suzukii.

Last publications
Camus* L., Rode N.O., Serga S., Loiseau A., Chen X., Iampietro C., Kenis M., Marande W., Mensch J., Parinello H., Savic Veselinovic M., Valiere S., Zhang J., Estoup A., Boitard S. & Gautier M. 2025. Adaptive challenges of past and future invasion of Drosophila suzukii: insights from novel genomic resources and statistical methods combining individual and pool sequencing data. Molecular Ecology 34 : e70192. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.70192)
Mitchell E.D., Kerdaffrec E., Harney E., Paulo T.F., Veselinovic M.S., Tanaskovic M., Tyukmaeva V., de Arcaya T.A.F., Aksoy C., Argyridou E., Bailly T.P.M., Can D., Cobanoglu E., Cook N., Coşkun S., Davidovic S., Demir E., Dias T., Rasouli-Dogaheh S., Duque P., Eric K., Eric P., Erickson P., Filipovski F., Fishman B., Glaser-Schmitt A., Goldfischer A., Green L., Janillon S., Jelic M., Kostic H., Kreiman L.E., Kremer N., Lyrakis M., Maistrenko O.M., Marti S.-L., McGunnigle M., Merenciano M., Mira M.S., Montbel V., Mouton L., Mukha D.V., Murali S., Patenkovic A., Protsenko O., Putero F.A., Reis M., Roshina N.V., Rybina O.Y., Schou M.F., Schowing T., Senkal S.S., Serga S., Trieu V., Symonenko A.V., Trostnikov M.V., Tsybul'ko E.A., van den Heuvel J., van Waarde D., Veselkina E.R., Vieira C.P., Wang X., Zandveld J., Abbott J., Billeter J.-C., Colinet H., Ebrahimi M., Gibert P., Hrcek J., Kankare M., Kozeretska I., Loeschcke V., Mensch J., Onder B.S., Parsch J., Pasyukova E.G., Stamenkovic-Radak M., Tauber E., Vieira C., Wegener C., Hoedjes K.M., Zwaan B.J., Betancourt A.J., Fricke C., Grath S., Posnien N., Vieira J., Kapun M., Schlötterer C., Schmidt P., Sucena É., González J., Bergland A., Ritchie M.G. & Flatt T. 2025. Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution Letters 9 : 473-490. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qraf014)
Nunez J.C.B., Coronado-Zamora M., Gautier M., Kapun M., Steindl S., Ometto L., Hoedjes K., Beets J., Wiberg R.A.W., Mazzeo G.R., Bass D.J., Radionov D., Kozeretska I., Zinchenko M., Protsenko O., Serga S., Amor-Jimenez C., Casillas S., Sanchez-Gracia A., Patenkovic A., Glaser-Schmitt A., Barbadilla A., Buendia-Ruiz A.J., Bertelli A.C., Kiss B., Onder B.S., Matrin B.R., Wertheim B., Deschamps C., Arboleda-Bustos C.E., Tinedo C., Feller C., Schlotterer C., Lawler C., Fricke C., Vieira C.P., Vieira C., Obbard D.J., Orengo D.J., Vela D., Amat E., Loreto E., Kerdaffrec E., Mitchell E.D., Puerma E., Staubach F., Camus M.F., Colinet H., Hrcek J., Sorensen J.G., Abbott J., Torro J., Parsch J., Vieira J., Olmo J.L., Khfif K., Wojciechowski K., Madi-Ravazzi L., Kankare M., Schou M.F., Ladoukakis E.D., Gomez-Julian M.J., Espinosa-Jimenez M.L., Garcia Guerreiro M.P., Parakatselaki M.E., Savic Veselinovic M., Tanaskovic M., Stamenkovic-Radak M., Paris M., Pascual M., Ritchie M.G., Rera M., Jelic M., Ansari M.H., Rakic M., Merenciano M., Hernandes N., Gora N., Rode N.O., Rota-Stabelli O., Sepulveda P., Gibert P., Carazo P., Kohlmeier P., Erickson P.A., Vitalis R., Torres J.R., Guirao-Rico S., Ramos-Onsins S.E., Castillo S., Paulo T.F., Tyukmaeva V., Alonso Z., Alatortsev V.E., Pasyukova E., Mukha D.V., Petrov D.A., Schmidt P., Flatt T., Bergland A.O. & Gonzalez J. 2025. Footprints of worldwide adaptation in structured populations of Drosophila melanogaster through the expanded DEST 2.0 genomic resource. Molecular Biology and Evolution 42 : msaf132. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf132)
Serga S., Kovalenko P.A., Maistrenko O.M., Deconninck G., Shevchenko O., Iakovenko N., Protsenko Y., Susulovsky A., Kaczmarek L., Pavlovska M., Convey P. & Kozeretska I. 2024. Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?. Environmental Microbiology Reports 16 : e70040. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70040)
Maistrenko O.M., Serga S., Kovalenko P.A. & Kozeretska I.A. 2023. Bacteria associated with the Antarctic endemic insect Belgica antarctica Jacobs (Diptera Chironomidae). Cytology and Genetics 57 : 207-212. (https://dx.doi.org/10.3103/s0095452723030064)
Michailova P., Kovalenko P.A., Serga S., Parnikoza I., Kozeretska I. & Convey P. 2023. A chromosome map of Belgica antarctica Jacobs (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Antarctica, including chromosome variability. Antarctic Science 35 : 328-344. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102023000202)
Serga S., Maistrenko O.M., Kovalenko P.A., Tsila O., Hrubiian N., Bilokon S., Alieksieieva T., Radionov D., Betancourt A.J. & Kozeretska I. 2023. Wolbachia in natural Drosophila simulans (Diptera: Drosophilidae) populations in Ukraine. Symbiosis 89 : 187-196. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13199-023-00899-8)