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Solid-state 31P NMR reveals the biological organophosphorus compounds as the dominant phosphorus species in Saharan dust aerosols

Pierre Rossi, Claudia Esther Avalos, Athanasios Nenes, Kalliopi Violaki, Christos Panagiotopoulos

Phosphorus is a critical nutrient affecting primary productivity across all ecosystems. Many regions worldwide are limited or co-limited by phosphorus availability, which can be alleviated through atmospheric deposition. Dust is known to be a key external ...

2025

Biostimulation as a sustainable solution for acid neutralization and uranium immobilization post acidic in-situ recovery

Pierre Rossi, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Thomas Coral

Major uranium (U) deposits worldwide are exploited by acid leaching, known as 'in-situ recovery' (ISR). ISR involves the injection of an acid fluid into ore-bearing aquifers and the pumping of the resulting metal-containing solution through cation exchange ...

2022

The capture technology matters: Composition of municipal wastewater solids drives complexity of microbial community structure and volatile fatty acid profile during anaerobic fermentation

Pierre Rossi, Arnaud Michel Gelb

The production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) represents a relevant option to valorize municipal wastewater (MWW). In this context, different capture technologies can be used to recover organic carbon from wastewater in form of solids, while pre-treatment ...

2022

Influent carbon to phosphorus ratio drives the selection of PHA-storing organisms in a single CSTR

Pierre Rossi

Enriching a biomass with a high fraction of polyhydroxyalkanoate-storing organisms (PHA-storers) represents an essential step in the production of PHAs (bioplastics) from municipal wastewater using mixed microbial cultures. A major challenge is however to ...

2022

Implementation of a constructed wetland for the sustainable treatment of inland shrimp farming water

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Pierre Rossi, Vincent Jean Jacques Marie Cochevelou

In the Mekong delta, inland-based shrimp breeding requires significant inflow of high-quality freshwater. In turn, discharge of substantial loads of poor-quality effluents negatively impacts adjacent water bodies and favors disease outbreaks. This project ...

2020

Microbial communities associated with uranium in-situ recovery mining process are related to acid mine drainage assemblages

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Pierre Rossi, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Thomas Coral

A large fraction (47%) of the world's uranium is mined by a technique called “In Situ Recovery” (ISR). This mining technique involves the injection of a leaching fluid (acidic or alkaline) into a uranium-bearing aquifer and the pumping of the resulting sol ...

2018

Analysis of antibiotic multi-resistant bacteria and resistance genes in the effluent of an intensive shrimp farm (Long An, Vietnam)

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Pierre Rossi

In Vietnam, intensive shrimp farms heavily rely on a wide variety of antibiotics (ABs) to treat animals or prevent disease outbreak. Potential for the emergence of multi-resistant bacteria is high, with the concomitant contamination of adjacent natural aqu ...

2018

Validation of an integrative methodology to assess and monitor reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes in contaminated aquifers

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Sonia Estelle Tarnawski

Bioremediation of tetra-and trichloroethene-contaminated aquifers is requently hampered due to incomplete dechlorination to the more toxic dichloroethene (DCE) and vinyl chloride (VC), indicating insufficient knowledge about the biological mechanisms relat ...

2016

Indirect Evidence Link PCB Dehalogenation with Geobacteraceae in Anaerobic Sediment-Free Microcosms

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Martina Praveckova

Although polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) production was brought to a halt 30 years ago, recalcitrance to degradation makes them a major environmental pollutant at a global scale. Previous studies confirmed that organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB) were ...

Frontiers Media SA2016

Characterizing Aquifer Heterogeneity Using Bacterial and Bacteriophage Tracers

Pierre Rossi

Gravel aquifers act as important potable water sources in central western Europe, yet they are subject to numerous contamination pressures. Compositional and textural heterogeneity makes protection zone delineation around groundwater supplies in these unit ...

American Society of Agronomy2015

Dual-regulated lentiviral vector for gene therapy of x-linked chronic granulomatous disease

Didier Trono, Pierre Rossi

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc2015

Divergent PCB organohalide-respiring consortia enriched from the efflux channel of a former Delor manufacturer in Eastern Europe

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Martina Praveckova

Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) organohalide-respiring communities from the efflux channel of a former Delor manufacturer in Eastern Slovakia were assessed using metagenomic, statistical and cultivation-adapted approaches. Multivariate analysis of environme ...

Elsevier2015

Temporal evolution of bacterial communities associated with the in situ wetland-based remediation of a marine shore porphyry copper tailings deposit

Christof Holliger, Emmanuelle Rohrbach, Nouhou Diaby, Pierre Rossi

Mine tailings are a serious threat to the environment and public health. Remediation of these residues can be carried out effectively by the activation of specific microbial processes. This article presents detailed information about temporal changes in ba ...

Elsevier2015

Dual-Regulated Lentiviral Vector for Gene Therapy of X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease

Didier Trono, Pierre Rossi

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc2014

Subordinate plant species impact on soil microbial communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: Findings from a removal experiment

Alexandre Buttler, Charlotte Vandenberghe, Pierre Rossi, Claire Meugnier, Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Richard David Bardgett

Despite their low relative abundance, subordinate plant species may have larger impacts on ecosystem functioning than expected, but their role in plant communities remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to test how subordinate plant species i ...

Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer Verlag2013

Lowering the global warming impact of bridge rehabilitations by using Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concretes

Emmanuel Denarié, Pierre Rossi

Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC)is charact erized by aunique combination of extremely low permeability, high strength and deformability. Extensive R&D works and applications over the last 10 years have demonstrated that cast on sit ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Impact Assessment of Pumping Parameters on Groundwater Bacterial Communities

Christof Holliger, Guillaume Laulan, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Groundwater microbial community samples are traditionally collected using pumping techniques optimized for groundwater chemistry assessment, although the impact of groundwater pumping parameters on apparent bacterial community structures (BCSs) is not real ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Correlations between environmental variables and bacterial community structures suggest Fe(III) and vinyl chloride reduction as antagonistic terminal electron-accepting processes

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Natural attenuation of anaerobic aquifers contaminated with tetrachloroethene (PCE) often results in the accumulation of the intermediates cis-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride (VC) which are even more toxic than the parent compound. Reasons for this accum ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Regulated Lentiviral Vector Gene Transfer For X-Cgd

Didier Trono, Pierre Rossi

Springer/Plenum Publishers2012

Ecology and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities Associated with Chloroethene-Contaminated Aquifers

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Massive usage, along with careless handling, storage, spills, and leakages made chloroethenes (CEs) one of the most abundant classes of groundwater contaminants. Anaerobic organohalide respiring bacteria (OHRB) can couple reductive dechlorination of CEs wi ...

Frontiers Media SA2012