Paul-Emile Contarini

ORCID: 0000-0003-1574-8399
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Research Areas
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité
2022-2023

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2022-2023

Sorbonne Université
2022-2023

Menlo School
2023

École Pratique des Hautes Études
2022-2023

Université des Antilles
2020

Bacteria and Archaea are traditionally regarded as organisms with a simple morphology constrained to size of 2-3 µm. Nevertheless, the history microbial research is rich in description giant bacteria exceeding tens even hundreds micrometers length or diameter already from its early days, for example, Beggiatoa spp., present, Candidatus Thiomargarita magnifica. While some these giants still being studied, were lost science, merely drawings photomicrographs evidence their existence. The...

10.1093/gbe/evad163 article EN cc-by-nc Genome Biology and Evolution 2023-09-01

Abstract Thiovulum spp. (Campylobacterota) are large sulfur bacteria that form veil-like structures in aquatic environments. The sulfidic Movile Cave (Romania), sealed from the atmosphere for ~5 million years, has several aqueous chambers, some with low atmospheric O2 (~7%). cave’s surface-water microbial community is dominated by we identified as Thiovulum. We show this strain, and others subsurface environments, phylogenetically distinct marine assembled a closed genome of strain confirmed...

10.1038/s41396-022-01350-4 article EN cc-by The ISME Journal 2022-12-17
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