Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
About
Methane oxidizing bacteria, the methane biofilters, must be busy in freshwater systems. Half of global methane emissions come from these environments.
I wonder... how these bacteria tackle this!
Biography
Life is a spiral… My BSc research project focused on the effect of herbicides on cyanobacteria in rice paddies in Uruguay. Then, I studied cyanobacterial antioxidant response against osmotic and UV-B stresses. During my MSc, I left rice paddies and worked in a coastal lagoon on the Southern Atlantic coast. I sssessed the interaction between heterotrophic bacteria and phytoplankton in the N uptake.
Later, rice paddies again… but this time on how cyanobacterial inoculation may mitigate methane emissions from these systems. Here, I got closer to methane oxidizing bacteria and NIOO-KNAW, where I developed part of this project.
Finally, my PhD that deals with the ecology of methane oxidzing bacteria (MOB) in freshwater systems. I try to understand how some (a)-biotic factors modulate their niche differentiation in this environment.. The aim of one the chapters is the study of the MOB-cyanobacteria interactions in lakes… Indeed, life is a spiral...
Research groups
Research Expertise
Abiotic-biotic interactions Biogeochemistry Methane cycling Microbe-microbe interactionsCV
Employment
2018–Present
PhD student- NIOO-KNAW Microbial Ecology Department
Education
2008–2012
MSc Microbiology. PEDECIBA. UdelaR Uruguay
Grants
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2018Ecology Grant KNAW
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2021Ecology Grant. KNAW
Publications
Key publications
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Trophic and non-trophic effects of fish and macroinvertebrates on carbon emissions
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Resistance to degradation and effect of the herbicide glyphosate on the bacterioplankton community of a large river system domin
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Competition and protist predation are important regulators of riverine bacterial community composition and size distribution
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Osmotic stress alters UV-based oxidative damage tolerance in a heterocyst forming cyanobacterium
Projects & collaborations
Projects
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Fish bioturbation. Methane cycle-shallow freshwater systems
2018Cooperation Radboud University-CURE Maldonado (UdelaR-Uruguay)-NIOO-KNAW
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Methane oxidizing bacteria-heated lakes
2018–PresentCooperation with Dr. Cerbin and his group from the Institute of Hydrobiology in the UAM in Poland. The studied lakes are situated in the Konin Region in Poznan, Poland.