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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Microbial ecotoxicology: an emerging scientific fiel
 d facing contemporary environmental threats"
DTSTART:20170404T121500
DTEND:20170404T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Stéphane Pesce\, Group Leader\, Research Unit MALY "Freshw
 ater Systems\, Ecology and Pollution"\, IRSTEA Lyon-Villeurbanne (France)\
 n\nShort biography: Stéphane Pesce is the leader of the research group 
 “Microbial ecology in anthropized hydrosystem” at the French National 
 Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agricultu
 re (Irstea). For more than a decade\, he has been studying the structural 
 and functional responses of aquatic benthic microbial communities to toxic
 ant exposures. Investigations are performed on periphytic biofilm\, sedime
 nt and leaf litter microbial communities\, and a special attention is give
 n to the study of microbial adaptation processes following chronic exposur
 e to toxicants (pollution-induced community tolerance\, stimulation of bio
 degradation capacities…) to develop\, among others\, innovative approach
 es for water quality bioindication. He is the co-creator of the Emerging N
 etwork of Microbial Ecotoxicology (EcotoxicoMic) and is a member of the Di
 rectory Board of the Rovaltain Scientific Foundation for research in Healt
 h and Environment.\nAbstract:   \nMicrobial ecotoxicology is a scientifi
 c field which aims at studying both (i) the ecological effects of toxicant
 s on exposed microbial communities and their consequences on the various f
 unctions that they ensure in the ecosystems and (ii) the role of microbial
  communities in the ecodynamic of those pollutants (dissipation\, transfor
 mation\, accumulation\, transfer...). Microbial ecotoxicology seeks not on
 ly to conduct fundamental researches to understand the impact of pollutant
 s on microbial processes (and vice versa) but also to carry out applied re
 searches to provide tools to monitor the evolution of the ecological quali
 ty of the environment.\nThis will be illustrated in the presentation throu
 gh several examples of field and microcosm experiments which aimed to bett
 er establish the causal links between toxicant exposure and the structural
  and functional responses of benthic microbial communities under multiple 
 environmental pressures. Among other\, the presented results will show tha
 t the functional assessment of microbial communities\, with a specific foc
 us on their capacity to adapt to chronic exposure to toxicants\, could giv
 e more ecological relevance to the tools that are now available for assess
 ing the ecological status of aquatic ecosystems.\n 
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