Dumont, Marc G - University of Southampton - Discipline of Biological Sciences

个人简介

Career History 2015-Present Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology, Biological Sciences, University of Southampton 2014-2015 Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 2009–2014 Project Group Leader, Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 2007-2009 Max Planck Research Fellow, Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 2004–2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick Academic Qualifications 2004: PhD (Microbiology), University of Warwick, UK 2000: MSc (Microbiology), McGill University, Canada 1997: BSc (Agriculture), McGill University, Canada

研究领域

Microbial diversity and activity; linking microbial function and phylogeny The goal of my research is to understand the role of microbial communities involved in biogeochemical cycling and other important transformations. My primary focus is on methanotrophic bacteria, which are microorganisms that use methane as a sole carbon and energy source. The activity of methanotrophs mitigates the release of methane to the atmosphere and therefore has an important role in controlling greenhouse gas levels. Methanotrophs are active in many environments, including lake sediments, wetlands and upland soils. Stable isotope probing (SIP) of nucleic acids is a key method that we use in my research group. SIP helps us identify active microorganisms in environmental samples and allows us to capture their DNA and RNA. Combining SIP with ‘omics approaches (metagenomics, metranscriptomics, metaproteomics) can provide insights into the metabolic capabilities and activity of these organisms – many of which are still uncultivated and poorly characterized. More recently, research in my group has turned to the belowground interaction between plants and microorganisms in the rhizosphere. We use cultivation, high-throughput sequencing and stable isotope probing to reveal associations and functions.

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Salinity affects the composition of the aerobic methanotroph community in alkaline lake sediments from the Tibetan Plateau - Deng, Yongcui, Liu, Yongqin, Dumont, Marc and Conrad, Ralf Published:2016Publication:Microbial EcologyPage Range:1-10doi:10.1007/s00248-016-0879-5 Identification of active aerobic methanotrophs in plateau wetlands using DNA stable isotope probing - Deng, Yongcui, Xiaoyong, Cui and Dumont, Marc G. Published:2016Publication:FEMS Microbiology LettersVolume:363, (16)Page Range:1-8doi:10.1093/femsle/fnw168PMID:27369086 RNA-stable isotope probing: from carbon flow within key microbiota to targeted transcriptomes - Lueders, Tillmann, Dumont, Marc G., Bradford, Laura and Manefield, Mike Published:2016Publication:Current Opinion in BiotechnologyVolume:41Page Range:83-89doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2016.05.001 Microbial community structure in the rhizosphere of rice plants - Breidenbach, Björn, Pump, Judith and Dumont, Marc Published:2016Publication:Frontiers in MicrobiologyVolume:6Page Range:1-12doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01537PMID:26793175 Different bacterial populations associated with the roots and rhizosphere of rice incorporate plant-derived carbon - Hernandez, Marcela, Dumont, Marc G., Yuan, Quan, Conrad, Ralf and , Published:2015Publication:Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyVolume:81, (6)Page Range:2244-2253doi:10.1128/AEM.03209-14PMID:25616793