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SUMMARY:Bacterial predators: invisible pilars of soil ecosystems
DTSTART:20260310T121500
DTEND:20260310T131500
DTSTAMP:20260501T092327Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Tâm MIGNOT\, Laboratory of Bacterial Chemistry\, CNRS Marseil
 le\nSeveral decades of intensive agriculture and climate change have profo
 undly altered soil quality\, leading to the depletion of soil biodiversity
 . In the long term\, this could have serious consequences for food product
 ion\, making it urgent to understand plant ecosystems and their balances i
 n order to develop new sustainable practices. This represents a major chal
 lenge\, as soil biodiversity involves complex interactions between microor
 ganisms\, fungi\, plants\, and small animals. During this seminar\, I will
  describe the approaches used to grasp the microbiological complexity of s
 oils at different scales and to determine the role played by bacterial pre
 dators 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.
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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