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Partner 5. LCPME (UMR 7564 CNRS-UHP)
LCPME - Laboratory of physic chemistry and Microbiology for the Environment is a multidisciplinary
laboratory internationally recognized in the biofilm research topic and located in Nancy.
The LCPME currently conducts multidisciplinary approach for biofilm characterization and properties studies in environmental or industrial fields. It aims to study physico-chemical and microbial reactions at the interfaces water-solids in the environment. The researchs are transversal and conducted by the physicochemists and microbiologists of the lab. F. Jorand is an associate professor specialized in the biofilm studies and in the bacterial interactions with the iron species especially in the anaerobic environments. Material for anaerobic cultures of bacteria is available in the lab (Coy chambers for controlled atmosphere, anaerobic and/or microaerobic).
H. Guilloteau is an engineer specialized in microbiology and
water analysis. A PhD grant thesis will be provided from ministery (allocations MSER, école doctorale
BioSE for 2012) and dedicated to the project at 66%. The student will be supervised by F. Jorand and working in collaboration with J. Schäfer for mercury analysis.
Recently, LCPME had conducted with the laboratory EPOC (G. Abril & J. Schäfer, Bordeaux, F) a
research program on the biomethylation of mercury by the biofilms from tropical lake and river (Huguet,
PhD thesis, F. Jorand, supervisor), and collaborated with the CRPG and IPREM (Nicolas Estrade, PhD
thesis) on the isotopic fractionation of mercury during its reduction by a FeII-FeIII mineral.