Département Microbiologie de l’environnement

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