Département Microbiologie de l’environnement
Microbiologie de l’environnement
Notre recherche se consacre principalement à la biologie des microorganismes et des communautés microbiennes. Nous voulons élaborer des principes fondamentaux permettant de comprendre les processus des communautés microbiennes, et appliquer ensuite ces principes aux problèmes appliqués concrets. En savoir plus
Publications
Pathogens and Human Health: article arguing that greater reductions in diarrheal disease can be achieved with interventions that interrupt the most important environmental transmission pathways. Article
Microbial Systems Ecology: article about "bacterial memory" - the question whether individual bacterial cells can store information about the conditions that they encountered in the recent past, and use this information to better cope with environmental fluctuations. Article
Microbial Systems Ecology: article about the importance of bacterial individuality: limitations in the external supply of nutrients leads to metabolic differences between individual cells, and this allows populations of bacteria to cope with environmental fluctuations. Article
Drinking Water Microbiology: a paper showing the influence of pipe material composition with respect to biofilm quantity and composition, with specific focus on flexible shower hoses.
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Microbial community assembly: article about the "division of metabolic labor". Addresses the question of why different steps of metabolic pathways are sometimes distributed among different microbial genotypes. Article
News
Le group Écologie des systèmes microbiens participe à un nouveau projet de recherche collaborative pour étudier les communautés microbiennes aquatiques.
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