Rizlan Bernier-Latmani
EPFL ENAC IIE EML
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Fields of expertise
Geomicrobiology Environmental Microbiology Bioremediation Geochemistry Uranium biogeochemistry and isotope geochemistry Iron geomicrobiology Gram-positive bacteria Deep subsurface microbes Nuclear waste
Mission
The focus at EML is geomicrobiology: specifically, the study of metal-microbe interactions in the subsurface. The fundamental scientific questions are centered on the metabolic activity of microorganisms and their impact on biogeochemical cycling. There are many applications to this general scientific question: e.g., bioremediation, the storage of nuclear waste in geological repositories, the mobility of contaminants in the subsurface. We also specifically probe for the role of Gram-positive bacteria, an important but understudied group of bacteria, in the subsurface.Biography
HIGHER EDUCATION Summer course: Advances in Genome Technology and Bioinformatics Course at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. October 2005. Ph.D. 2001 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, CA (Advisor, Jim Leckie, Biodegradation of uranyl (UO22 )-complexed citrate and implications for uranyl mobility in the subsurface) M.S. 1995 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, CA B.S. 1993 Natural Resources with Honors, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT 2013-present Associate professor with tenure, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 2005-2013 Assistant professor tenure track, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 2001-2005 Post-Graduate Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA (PI: Brad Tebo) 1995-2001 Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford University (Advisor: Jim Leckie) RESEARCH INTERESTS Gemicrobiology, metal-bacteria interactions, biological reduction and oxidation of metals, biological nanoparticle formation; Characterization of microbial communities in terrestrial environments; Using genomic, microscopic and spectroscopic tools to understand metal transformations by microorganisms. ACADEMIC HONORS Rotary Foundation University Professor grant, 2004. Swiss National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2001. Leon B. Reynolds Memorial Scholarship in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, 1995-96. Graduated with Honors from Cornell University, 1993. BIBLIOMETRY http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-4398-2011 ResearcherID: E-4398-2011Publications
Infoscience publications
Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations
Water Resources Research. 2023-02-16. DOI : 10.1029/2022WR032328.Growth and persistence of an aerobic microbial community in Wyoming bentonite MX-80 despite anoxic in-situ conditions
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022-04-25. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2022.858324.Meta-omics-aided isolation of an elusive anaerobic arsenic-methylating soil bacterium
The ISME Journal. 2022-03-25. DOI : 10.1038/s41396-022-01220-z.Implantation of Bacillus pseudomycoides Chromate Transporter Increases Chromate Tolerance in Bacillus subtilis
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022-03-07. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2022.842623.Active anaerobic methane oxidation and sulfur disproportionation in the deep terrestrial subsurface
The ISME Journal. 2022-02-16. DOI : 10.1038/s41396-022-01207-w.Biostimulation as a sustainable solution for acid neutralization and uranium immobilization post acidic in-situ recovery
Science of the total environment. 2022-01-28. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153597.Persistence of the isotopic signature of pentavalent uranium in magnetite
Environmental Science and Technology. 2022-01-21. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.1c06865.Energy efficiency and biological interactions define the core microbiome of deep oligotrophic groundwater
Nature Communications. 2021-07-12. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-021-24549-z.Ab initio and steady-state models for uranium isotope fractionation in multi-step biotic and abiotic reduction
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2021-05-26. DOI : 10.1016/j.gca.2021.05.044.Uranium Isotope Fractionation during the Anoxic Mobilization of Noncrystalline U(IV) by Ligand Complexation
Environmental Science & Technology. 2021-05-26. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.0c08623.Biological reduction of a U(V)-organic ligand complex
Environmental Science & Technology. 2021-03-11. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.0c06633.Associations between inorganic arsenic in rice and groundwater arsenic in the Mekong Delta
Chemosphere. 2021-02-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129092.In Situ Biostimulation of Cr(VI) Reduction in a Fast-Flowing Oxic Aquifer
Acs Earth And Space Chemistry. 2020-11-19. DOI : 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00200.Biogeography of microbial bile acid transformations along the murine gut
Journal Of Lipid Research. 2020-11-01. DOI : 10.1194/jlr.RA120001021.Variability in arsenic methylation efficiency across aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms
Environmental Science & Technology. 2020-10-30. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.0c03908.Nanoscale mechanism of UO2 formation through uranium reduction by magnetite
Nature Communications. 2020-08-10. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-17795-0.Role of Iron Sulfide Phases in the Stability of Noncrystalline Tetravalent Uranium in Sediments
Environmental Science & Technology. 2020-04-21. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.9b07186.Ligand-Supported Facile Conversion of Uranyl(VI) into Uranium(IV) in Organic and Aqueous Media
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. 2020-02-28. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201916334.Active sulfur cycling in the terrestrial deep subsurface
The ISME Journal. 2020-02-11. DOI : 10.1038/s41396-020-0602-x.Microbially Mediated Release of As from Mekong Delta Peat Sediments
Environmental Science & Technology. 2019-09-03. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.9b02887.Interplay of S and As in Mekong Delta sediments during redox oscillations
Geoscience Frontiers. 2019-09-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.03.008.Colloidal Size and Redox State of Uranium Species in the Porewater of a Pristine Mountain Wetland
Environmental Science & Technology. 2019-08-20. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.9b01417.Chromate tolerance and removal of bacterial strains isolated from uncontaminated and chromium-polluted environments
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2019-03-21. DOI : 10.1007/s11274-019-2638-5.Effect of Aging on the Stability of Microbially Reduced Uranium in Natural Sediment
Environmental Science & Technology. 2019. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.8b07023.Impact of iron reduction on the metabolism of Clostridium acetobutylicum
Environmental Microbiology. 2019. DOI : 10.1111/1462-2920.14640.H2-fuelled microbial metabolism in Opalinus Clay
Applied Clay Science. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.clay.2019.03.020.As release under the microbial sulfate reduction during redox oscillations in the upper Mekong delta aquifers, Vietnam: A mechanistic study
Science of the Total Environment. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.219.In vitro and in vivo characterization of Clostridium scindens bile acid transformations
Gut Microbes. 2019. DOI : 10.1080/19490976.2018.1549420.Chromate Resistance Mechanisms in Leucobacter chromiiresistens
Applied And Environmental Microbiology. 2018-12-01. DOI : 10.1128/AEM.02208-18.Biogeochemical Cycling by a Low-Diversity Microbial Community in Deep Groundwater
Frontiers In Microbiology. 2018-09-07. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02129.Microbial communities associated with uranium in-situ recovery mining process are related to acid mine drainage assemblages
Science of the total environment. 2018-07-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.321.Arsenic speciation in Mekong Delta sediments depends on their depositional environment
Environmental Science and Technology. 2018. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.7b05177.The small RNA RyhB is a regulator of cytochrome expression in Shewanella oneidensis
Frontiers in Microbiology, section Microbial Physiology and Metabolism. 2018. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00268.Arsenic in Shallow Aquifers Linked to the Electrical Ground Conductivity: the Mekong Delta Source Example
Geosciences Research. 2017-08-01. DOI : 10.22606/gr.2017.23004.Arsenic methylation dynamics in a rice paddy soil anaerobic enrichment culture
Environmental Science and Technology. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.7b02970.The anaerobic corrosion of carbon steel in compacted bentonite exposed to natural Opalinus Clay porewater containing native microbial populations
Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology. 2017. DOI : 10.1080/1478422X.2017.1315233.Biogenic non-crystalline U(IV) revealed as major component in uranium ore deposits
Nature Communications. 2017. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms15538.Fifteen years of microbiological investigation in Opalinus Clay: a potential host rock for geologic radioactive waste depository
Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 2017. DOI : 10.1007/s00015-016-0255-y.Functional intestinal bile acid 7-alpha-dehydroxylation by Clostridium scindens associated with protection from C. difficile infection in a gnotobiotic mouse model
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 2016. DOI : 10.3389/fcimb.2016.00191.Variability in DPA and calcium content in the spores of Clostridium species
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2016. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01791.Products of in situ corrosion of depleted uranium ammunition in Bosnia and Herzegovina soils
Environmental Science and Technology. 2016. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.6b03732.Reconstructing a hydrogen-driven microbial metabolic network in Opalinus Clay rock
Nature Communications. 2016. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms12770.Rates of microbial hydrogen oxidation and sulfate reduction in Opalinus Clay rock
Applied Geochemistry. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2016.06.011.Fabric characteristics and mechanical response to bio-improved sand to various treatment conditions
Geotechnique Letters. 2016. DOI : 10.1680/jgele.15.00134.Rapid mobilization of noncrystalline U(IV) coupled with FeS oxidation
Environmental Science and Technology. 2016. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.5b04281.Phylogenetic comparison of Desulfotomaculum species of subgroup 1a and description of Desulfotomaculum reducens sp.nov.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2016. DOI : 10.1099/ijsem.0.000786.A minimalistic microbial food web in an excavated deep subsurface clay rock
FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2016. DOI : 10.1093/femsec/fiv138.DLL4 promotes continuous adult intestinal lacteal regeneration and dietary fat transport
Journal Of Clinical Investigation. 2015. DOI : 10.1172/Jci82045.Environmental Mineralogy: New challenges, new materials
Elements. 2015. DOI : 10.2113/gselements.11.4.247.Mechanism of uranium reduction and immobilization in Desulfovibrio vulgaris biofilms
Environmental Science and Technology. 2015. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.5b01769.Meet Me in the Middle Dual Origins of Dermal Lymphatic Vasculature in Mammals
Circulation Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1161/Circresaha.115.306436.Long-term in-situ oxidation of biogenic uraninite in an alluvial aquifer: impact of dissolved oxygen and calcium
Environmental Science and Technology. 2015. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.5b00949.Uranium Isotopes Fingerprint Biotic Reduction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 2015. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1421841112.PROX1 Promotes Metabolic Adaptation and Fuels Outgrowth of Wnt(high) Metastatic Colon Cancer Cells
Cell Reports. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.08.041.Speciation and reactivity of uranium products formed during in situ bioremediation in a shallow alluvial aquifer
Environmental Science and Technology. 2014. DOI : 10.1021/es502701u.Characterization of the surfaceome of the metal-reducing bacterium Desulfotomaculum reducens
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2014. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00432.Investigation of sporulation in the Desulfotomaculum genus: a genomic comparison with the genera Bacillus and Clostridium
Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2014. DOI : 10.1111/1758-2229.12200.Geochemical control on uranium(IV) mobility in a mining-impacted wetland
Environmental Science and Technology. 2014. DOI : 10.1021/es501556d.Combined scanning transmission X-ray and electron microscopy for the characterization of bacterial endospores
FEMS Microbiology Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1111/1574-6968.12539.Membrane vesicles as a novel strategy for shedding encrusted cell surfaces
Minerals. 2014. DOI : 10.3390/min4010074.The product of microbial uranium reduction includes multiple species with U(IV)-phosphate coordination
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.gca.2014.01.005.Fe(III) reduction during pyruvate fermentation by Desulfotomaculum reducens strain MI-1
Geobiology. 2014. DOI : 10.1111/gbi.12067.Mobile uranium(IV)-bearing colloids in a mining-impacted wetland
Nature Communications. 2013. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms3942.Biogeochemical controls on the product of microbial U(VI) reduction
Environmental Science and Technology. 2013. DOI : 10.1021/es402631w.Relative Reactivity of Biogenic and Chemogenic Uraninite and Biogenic Non-Crystalline U(IV)
Environmental Science and Technology. 2013. DOI : 10.1021/es401663t.Silver release from silver nanoparticles in natural waters
Environmental Science and Technology -Washington DC-. 2013. DOI : 10.1021/es304023p.Genome analysis of Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii reveals a physiological similarity with Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum
Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2013. DOI : 10.4056/sigs.3627141.Impact of microbial Mn oxidation on the remobilization of bioreduced U(IV)
Environmental Science and Technology -Washington DC-. 2013. DOI : 10.1021/es3036835.Uranium redox transition pathways in acetate-amended sediments
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2013. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1219198110.Beam-induced oxidation of monomeric U(IV) species
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2013. DOI : 10.1107/S0909049512041763.Complete genome sequence of the sulfate-reducing Firmicute Desulfotomaculum ruminis type strain (DLT)
Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2012. DOI : 10.4056/sigs.3226659.Oxidative Dissolution of Biogenic Uraninite in Groundwater at Old Rifle, CO (vol 45, pg 8748, 2011)
Environmental Science & Technology. 2012. DOI : 10.1021/es302732d.Quantitative separation of monomeric U(IV) from UO2 in products of U(VI) reduction
Environmental Science and Technology. 2012. DOI : 10.1021/es204123z.The response of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 to Cr(III) toxicity differs from that to Cr(VI)
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2011. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00223.Oxidative dissolution of biogenic uraninite in groundwater at Old Rifle, CO
Environmental Science and Technology. 2011. DOI : 10.1021/es200482f.Uranium speciation and stability after reductive immobilization in sediments
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.gca.2011.08.022.Role of proteins in the controlling selenium nanoparticle size
Nanotechnology. 2011. DOI : 10.1088/0957-4484/22/19/195605.Products of abiotic U(VI) reduction by biogenic magnetite and vivianite
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.gca.2011.02.024.The response of Desulfotomaculum reducens MI-1 to U(VI) exposure: a transcriptomic study
Geomicrobiology Journal. 2011. DOI : 10.1080/01490451.2010.512031.Speciation-dependent kinetics of uranium(VI) bioreduction
Geomicrobiology Journal. 2011. DOI : 10.1080/01490451.2010.507640.Non-uraninite products of microbial U(VI) reduction
Environmental Science and Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.1021/es101675a.U(VI) reduction by spores of Clostridium acetobutylicum
Research in Microbiology. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.resmic.2010.08.001.The genome of the Gram-positive, metal- and sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfotomaculum reducens strain MI-1
Environmental Microbiology. 2010. DOI : 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02242.x.Binding of silver nanoparticles to bacterial proteins depends on surface modifications and inhibits enzymatic activity
Environmental Science and Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.1021/es903187s.Speciation of naturally-accumulated uranium in an organic-rich soil of an alpine region (Switzerland)
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.gca.2010.01.007.The effect of competing electron acceptors on U(VI) reduction by Desulfotomaculum reducens
Geomicrobiology Journal. 2010. DOI : 10.1080/01490450903480293.Comparative dissolution kinetics of biogenic and chemogenic uraninite under oxidizing conditions in the presence of carbonate
Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.gca.2009.07.012.Structural similarities between biogenic uraninites produced by phylogenetically and metabolically diverse bacteria
Environmental Science and Technology. 2009. DOI : 10.1021/es901281e.Effect of Mn(II) on the structure and reactivity of biogenic uraninite
Environmental Science and Technology. 2009. DOI : 10.1021/es900556k.Metal reduction by spores of Desulfotomaculum reducens
Environmental Microbiology. 2009. DOI : 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02003.x.SunCHem: an integrated process for the hydrothermal production of methane from microalgae and CO2 mitigation
Journal of Applied Phycology. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s10811-009-9403-3.Biogenic uraninite nanoparticles and their importance for uranium remediation
Elements. 2008. DOI : 10.2113/gselements.4.6.407.Structure of biogenic uraninite produced by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
Environmental Science and Technology. 2008. DOI : 10.1021/es800579g.Dissolution of Biogenic and Synthetic UO2 under Varied Reducing Conditions
Environmental Science and Technology. 2008. DOI : 10.1021/es800647u.Genomic insights into Mn(II) oxidation by the marine alphaproteobacterium Aurantimonas sp. strain Si85-9A1
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2008. DOI : 10.1128/AEM.01656-07.Toxicity of uncomplexed trivalent chromium to Shewanella sp. strain MR-4 during Cr(VI) reduction
Environmental Science and Technology. 2007. DOI : 10.1021/es0622655.Global Transcriptional Profiling of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 During Cr(VI) and U(VI) Reduction
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2005. DOI : 10.1128/AEM.71.11.7453-7460.2005.Chemical speciation and toxicity of metals assessed by three bioluminescence-based assays using marine organisms
Environmental Toxicology. 2004. DOI : 10.1002/tox.20009.Association of uranyl with the cell wall of Pseudomonas fluorescens inhibits metabolism.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2003. DOI : 10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00214-X.Fate of uranyl in a quaternary system composed of uranyl, citrate, goethite, and Pseudomonas fluorescens
Environmental Science and Technology. 2003. DOI : 10.1021/es0210401.Infoscience
Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations
Water Resources Research. 2023-02-16. DOI : 10.1029/2022WR032328.Growth and persistence of an aerobic microbial community in Wyoming bentonite MX-80 despite anoxic in-situ conditions
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022-04-25. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2022.858324.Meta-omics-aided isolation of an elusive anaerobic arsenic-methylating soil bacterium
The ISME Journal. 2022-03-25. DOI : 10.1038/s41396-022-01220-z.Implantation of Bacillus pseudomycoides Chromate Transporter Increases Chromate Tolerance in Bacillus subtilis
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022-03-07. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2022.842623.Active anaerobic methane oxidation and sulfur disproportionation in the deep terrestrial subsurface
The ISME Journal. 2022-02-16. DOI : 10.1038/s41396-022-01207-w.Biostimulation as a sustainable solution for acid neutralization and uranium immobilization post acidic in-situ recovery
Science of the total environment. 2022-01-28. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153597.Persistence of the isotopic signature of pentavalent uranium in magnetite
Environmental Science and Technology. 2022-01-21. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.1c06865.Energy efficiency and biological interactions define the core microbiome of deep oligotrophic groundwater
Nature Communications. 2021-07-12. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-021-24549-z.Ab initio and steady-state models for uranium isotope fractionation in multi-step biotic and abiotic reduction
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2021-05-26. DOI : 10.1016/j.gca.2021.05.044.Uranium Isotope Fractionation during the Anoxic Mobilization of Noncrystalline U(IV) by Ligand Complexation
Environmental Science & Technology. 2021-05-26. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.0c08623.Biological reduction of a U(V)-organic ligand complex
Environmental Science & Technology. 2021-03-11. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.0c06633.Associations between inorganic arsenic in rice and groundwater arsenic in the Mekong Delta
Chemosphere. 2021-02-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129092.In Situ Biostimulation of Cr(VI) Reduction in a Fast-Flowing Oxic Aquifer
Acs Earth And Space Chemistry. 2020-11-19. DOI : 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00200.Biogeography of microbial bile acid transformations along the murine gut
Journal Of Lipid Research. 2020-11-01. DOI : 10.1194/jlr.RA120001021.Variability in arsenic methylation efficiency across aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms
Environmental Science & Technology. 2020-10-30. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.0c03908.Nanoscale mechanism of UO2 formation through uranium reduction by magnetite
Nature Communications. 2020-08-10. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-17795-0.Role of Iron Sulfide Phases in the Stability of Noncrystalline Tetravalent Uranium in Sediments
Environmental Science & Technology. 2020-04-21. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.9b07186.Ligand-Supported Facile Conversion of Uranyl(VI) into Uranium(IV) in Organic and Aqueous Media
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. 2020-02-28. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201916334.Active sulfur cycling in the terrestrial deep subsurface
The ISME Journal. 2020-02-11. DOI : 10.1038/s41396-020-0602-x.Microbially Mediated Release of As from Mekong Delta Peat Sediments
Environmental Science & Technology. 2019-09-03. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.9b02887.Interplay of S and As in Mekong Delta sediments during redox oscillations
Geoscience Frontiers. 2019-09-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.03.008.Colloidal Size and Redox State of Uranium Species in the Porewater of a Pristine Mountain Wetland
Environmental Science & Technology. 2019-08-20. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.9b01417.Chromate tolerance and removal of bacterial strains isolated from uncontaminated and chromium-polluted environments
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2019-03-21. DOI : 10.1007/s11274-019-2638-5.Effect of Aging on the Stability of Microbially Reduced Uranium in Natural Sediment
Environmental Science & Technology. 2019. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.8b07023.Impact of iron reduction on the metabolism of Clostridium acetobutylicum
Environmental Microbiology. 2019. DOI : 10.1111/1462-2920.14640.H2-fuelled microbial metabolism in Opalinus Clay
Applied Clay Science. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.clay.2019.03.020.As release under the microbial sulfate reduction during redox oscillations in the upper Mekong delta aquifers, Vietnam: A mechanistic study
Science of the Total Environment. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.219.In vitro and in vivo characterization of Clostridium scindens bile acid transformations
Gut Microbes. 2019. DOI : 10.1080/19490976.2018.1549420.Chromate Resistance Mechanisms in Leucobacter chromiiresistens
Applied And Environmental Microbiology. 2018-12-01. DOI : 10.1128/AEM.02208-18.Biogeochemical Cycling by a Low-Diversity Microbial Community in Deep Groundwater
Frontiers In Microbiology. 2018-09-07. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02129.Microbial communities associated with uranium in-situ recovery mining process are related to acid mine drainage assemblages
Science of the total environment. 2018-07-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.321.Arsenic speciation in Mekong Delta sediments depends on their depositional environment
Environmental Science and Technology. 2018. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.7b05177.The small RNA RyhB is a regulator of cytochrome expression in Shewanella oneidensis
Frontiers in Microbiology, section Microbial Physiology and Metabolism. 2018. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00268.Arsenic in Shallow Aquifers Linked to the Electrical Ground Conductivity: the Mekong Delta Source Example
Geosciences Research. 2017-08-01. DOI : 10.22606/gr.2017.23004.Arsenic methylation dynamics in a rice paddy soil anaerobic enrichment culture
Environmental Science and Technology. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.7b02970.The anaerobic corrosion of carbon steel in compacted bentonite exposed to natural Opalinus Clay porewater containing native microbial populations
Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology. 2017. DOI : 10.1080/1478422X.2017.1315233.Biogenic non-crystalline U(IV) revealed as major component in uranium ore deposits
Nature Communications. 2017. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms15538.Fifteen years of microbiological investigation in Opalinus Clay: a potential host rock for geologic radioactive waste depository
Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 2017. DOI : 10.1007/s00015-016-0255-y.Functional intestinal bile acid 7-alpha-dehydroxylation by Clostridium scindens associated with protection from C. difficile infection in a gnotobiotic mouse model
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 2016. DOI : 10.3389/fcimb.2016.00191.Variability in DPA and calcium content in the spores of Clostridium species
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2016. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01791.Products of in situ corrosion of depleted uranium ammunition in Bosnia and Herzegovina soils
Environmental Science and Technology. 2016. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.6b03732.Reconstructing a hydrogen-driven microbial metabolic network in Opalinus Clay rock
Nature Communications. 2016. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms12770.Rates of microbial hydrogen oxidation and sulfate reduction in Opalinus Clay rock
Applied Geochemistry. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2016.06.011.Fabric characteristics and mechanical response to bio-improved sand to various treatment conditions
Geotechnique Letters. 2016. DOI : 10.1680/jgele.15.00134.Rapid mobilization of noncrystalline U(IV) coupled with FeS oxidation
Environmental Science and Technology. 2016. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.5b04281.Phylogenetic comparison of Desulfotomaculum species of subgroup 1a and description of Desulfotomaculum reducens sp.nov.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2016. DOI : 10.1099/ijsem.0.000786.A minimalistic microbial food web in an excavated deep subsurface clay rock
FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2016. DOI : 10.1093/femsec/fiv138.DLL4 promotes continuous adult intestinal lacteal regeneration and dietary fat transport
Journal Of Clinical Investigation. 2015. DOI : 10.1172/Jci82045.Environmental Mineralogy: New challenges, new materials
Elements. 2015. DOI : 10.2113/gselements.11.4.247.Mechanism of uranium reduction and immobilization in Desulfovibrio vulgaris biofilms
Environmental Science and Technology. 2015. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.5b01769.Meet Me in the Middle Dual Origins of Dermal Lymphatic Vasculature in Mammals
Circulation Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1161/Circresaha.115.306436.Long-term in-situ oxidation of biogenic uraninite in an alluvial aquifer: impact of dissolved oxygen and calcium
Environmental Science and Technology. 2015. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.5b00949.Uranium Isotopes Fingerprint Biotic Reduction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 2015. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1421841112.PROX1 Promotes Metabolic Adaptation and Fuels Outgrowth of Wnt(high) Metastatic Colon Cancer Cells
Cell Reports. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.08.041.Speciation and reactivity of uranium products formed during in situ bioremediation in a shallow alluvial aquifer
Environmental Science and Technology. 2014. DOI : 10.1021/es502701u.Characterization of the surfaceome of the metal-reducing bacterium Desulfotomaculum reducens
Frontiers in Microbiology. 2014. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00432.Investigation of sporulation in the Desulfotomaculum genus: a genomic comparison with the genera Bacillus and Clostridium
Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2014. DOI : 10.1111/1758-2229.12200.Geochemical control on uranium(IV) mobility in a mining-impacted wetland
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Environmental Science and Technology. 2013. DOI : 10.1021/es401663t.Silver release from silver nanoparticles in natural waters
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Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2012. DOI : 10.4056/sigs.3226659.Oxidative Dissolution of Biogenic Uraninite in Groundwater at Old Rifle, CO (vol 45, pg 8748, 2011)
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Environmental Science and Technology. 2007. DOI : 10.1021/es0622655.Global Transcriptional Profiling of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 During Cr(VI) and U(VI) Reduction
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Environmental Science and Technology. 2003. DOI : 10.1021/es0210401.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
PhD Students
Marin Jaramillo Juan Pablo, Reinhold Katharina, Rolland Camille Aude, Sallet Hugo, Wang Simiao,Past EPFL PhD Students
Bagnoud Alexandre , Burzan Niels , Dalla Vecchia Elena Cristina , Dobias Jan , List Cornelia , Loreggian Luca , Marion Solenne Anne Marie , Molinas Margaux Camille Andréa , Stylo Malgorzata Alicja , Veeramani Harish , Viacava Romo Karen Elda ,Courses
Microbiology for engineers
This course covers the fundamental microbial processes that take place in the environment and in specific engineered compartments. It represents the major cycles that are carried out by microorganisms and that impact planet Earth.
Groundwater and soil remediation
This course covers the essential knowledge of contaminant partitioning and techniques to monitor chemical species, physical extent of contamination and biological processes. In the second part, remediation approaches are tackled. This course represents the fundamentals of remediation.