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SUMMARY:Special EESS talk on "Closing the loop: 20+ years in organohalide 
 respiration"
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Julien Maillard\, LBE - EPFL\nAbstract:\nOrganohalide resp
 iration is an environmental-friendly bacterial energy metabolism that make
 s use of halogenated compounds as terminal electron acceptors and contribu
 tes to the bioremediation of polluted sites. Since its discovery more than
  30 years ago\, the diversity of organohalide-respiring bacteria and that 
 of the key enzyme in the process – the reductive dehalogenase – has ma
 ssively increased. Nevertheless\, fundamental aspects of this anaerobic re
 spiratory process are still to be elucidated. Since the start of my PhD th
 esis in 2000 in the Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology (LBE\, EPFL
 ) and until today\, I had the opportunity to follow and contribute to the 
 understanding of organohalide respiration. Starting from the identificatio
 n of the genes\, and then along with the emergence of omics\, I investigat
 ed the genetics\, physiology\, regulation and biochemistry of a subset of 
 organohalide-respiring bacteria.\nAt the time of closing the EPFL chapter 
 of my life\, this seminar aims at presenting an overview of the work done 
 throughout these years thanks to the fruitful teamwork with enthusiastic s
 tudents and external researchers\, and to the long-lasting collaboration w
 ith LBE head\, Christof Holliger.\n\nShort biography:\nDr. Julien Maillard
  is a Research Senior Associate in the Laboratory for Environmental Biotec
 hnology (LBE) at EPFL. His work so far has focused on bacteria able to use
  halogenated compounds (such as the widespread contaminant tetrachloroethe
 ne) as terminal electron acceptors in the anaerobic respiration process ca
 lled organohalide respiration. After graduation in biotechnology and micro
 biology at ETHZ\, he obtained a PhD in microbiology at LBE and spent two y
 ears as a postdoc at UEA in Norwich (UK). Back to LBE first as a postdoc i
 n 2007\, he became research associate in 2011. Together with Christof Holl
 iger\, he has co-directed the work of five PhD students.\n 
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