Bacterial predators: invisible pilars of soil ecosystems
Event details
| Date | 10.03.2026 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Tâm MIGNOT, Laboratory of Bacterial Chemistry, CNRS Marseille |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Several decades of intensive agriculture and climate change have profoundly altered soil quality, leading to the depletion of soil biodiversity. In the long term, this could have serious consequences for food production, making it urgent to understand plant ecosystems and their balances in order to develop new sustainable practices. This represents a major challenge, as soil biodiversity involves complex interactions between microorganisms, fungi, plants, and small animals. During this seminar, I will describe the approaches used to grasp the microbiological complexity of soils at different scales and to determine the role played by bacterial predators in maintaining these balances. I will then show how these predators are studied in the laboratory with the aim of understanding their biology and in the long run using them to restore biodiversity in degraded soils.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Camille Goemans