Dr. Catherine Larose
CNRS Research Scientist
Laboratoire Ampère, UMR CNRS 5005
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Université de Lyon
36 avenue Guy de Collongue
69134 Ecully cedex
France
catherine.larose@ec-lyon.fr
+33 (0) 472 18 62 37
Research Interests
Our research is focused on understanding how microorganisms interact with their environment and amongst each other in a changing world. We focus on environments that are at the extremes of what we consider habitable and that are also undergoing the most changes due to global warming. Therefore, much of our work is conducted in the Arctic, where we use different models such as terrestrial snowpacks, sea-ice and ice cores to study the limits of life, colonization, microbial activity, adaptation and biogeochemical cycling. Since snow is connected to the atmosphere, our more recent work is related to determining the processes that structure microbial communities in the air and how they are transported across the globe. We are also turning to the past to understand how climate change impacted microbial life by studying ice cores.
Current Projects
MicroLife and In-Space: these international collaborative projects focus on the connection between atmospheric inputs of nutrients and microorganisms and snow microbial communities in the Arctic. Through year-round field campaigns, we are seeking to understand how snowpack communities establish, their activity vs dormancy and how they drive biogeochemical processes in Arctic ecosystems.
Central Antarctic environments – genomic insights into microbial biogeochemisty: A joint project with the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in Saint Petersburg. Based on a collaboration initiated through the Franco-Russian LIA on ice cores, we propose to combine our expertise on microbiology and ecology to explore community function and diversity in samples collected from Vostok, Antarctica.
EVOSNOW: Evolutionary drivers of snow microbial communities.
ABS: Atmospheric Biogenic Sugars.
ICEBIO: Center for glacial biome doctoral network
Curriculum Vitae
- 2016- Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR): “Microbiogeochemistry of cold ecosystems”. Ecole Centrale de Lyon, University of Lyon, Ecully, France
- 2013-present CNRS research scientist, Section 30, Environmental microbial genomics group, Laboratoire Ampère, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, University of Lyon
- 2010-2013 Post doctoral fellow, Environmental microbial genomics group, Laboratoire Ampère, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, University of Lyon
Education
- 2007-2010 Doctorat Sciences de la Terre, Univers, Environnement, Université de Grenoble, France, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement et le Laboratoire d’Adaptation et Pathogénie Microbienne. Titre: Interactions entre composition chimique et populations microbiennes de la neige: quelles sont les conséquences sur le cycle du mercure en Arctique ?
- 2004-2006 M.Sc. Sciences de l’environnement, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Canada, Centre de Recherche en Géochimie et en Géodynamique (GEOTOP) et le Réseau collaboratif de recherche sur le mercure (COMERN). Directeur de recherche : M. Lucotte, Professeur, UQÀM. Titre: Toxicocinétique du mercure chez le doré et la perchaude dans les lacs de la forêt boréale.
- 2001-2004 B.Sc. Sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Projet de recherche: Validation d’un protocole de préparation des échantillons en vue de la détermination des taux de production photochimique et métabolique de CO2
Mentoring
- Romie Tignat-Perrier (PhD) Aerobiology
- Adrien Boniface (PhD) Cryosphere microbiology
- Rose Layton (ITN Microarctic PhD) Cryosphere microbiology
- Benoît Bergk Pinto (ITN Microarctic PhD) Cryosphere microbiology
- Carolina Hoyos (post-doctoral researcher) 2015-present: Microbial adaptations to extreme environments
- Christoph Keuschnig (ITN Marie-Curie PhD), 2014-2016: Biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen, role of microbial communities (2 publications under review)
- Laura Sanguino (ITN Marie-Curie PhD) 2012-2015: Exploring environmental virus-host interactions and their relevance to microbial adaptation using CRISPRs (2 publications, 1 under review)
- Lorrie Maccario (PhD) 2012-2015: Snow Ecosystem: Microbial community structure and function in Arctic snowpacks (2 publications, 1 under review)
- Adrien Boniface (M2, ENS) 2015: Adaptation et écologie des communautés microbiennes de la neige
- Anthony Morris (TFE ECL) 2015: Arctic snow microbial community responses to increases in temperature and carbon inputs
- Sebastien David (M2) 2014-2015: Impact des radionucléides sur la structuration microbienne des sols de Fukushima
- Eric Capo (M2) 2012-2013: Potentiel de dégradation des hydrocarbures des microorganismes de la neige
- 2003-present: Training of undergraduate and master’s students in field (north of Québec, Arctic) and laboratory techniques. I helped define research projects, supervised lab and field work and help revise and prepare reports and oral presentations.
External Activites
- Member of the International Organizing Committee of the 5th International Polar and Alpine Microbiology Conference in Montana, 2013.
- Organization of a session at the Goldschmidt Conference, 2015.
Publications
Larose, C., Maccario, L., Vogel,T.M. 2021. Microbiology of the Cryosphere: Diversity, Habitat Constraints and Ecology. Chapter in Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry – Volume 3, World Scientific Publishing Company.
Tignat-Perrier, R., Dommergue, A., Thollot, A., Magand, O., Amato, P., Joly, M., Sellegri, K., Vogel ,T.M., Larose, C. 2020. Seasonal shift in airborne microbial communities. Science of the Total Environment 716 doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv
Zhu, C., Miller, M., Lusskin, N., Bergk Pinto, B., Lorrie Maccario, L., Haggblom, M., Vogel, T.M., Larose, C., Bromberg, Y. 2020. Snow Microbiome Functional Analyses Reveal Novel Microbial Metabolism of Complex Organic Compounds. MicrobiologyOpen. 2020;9:e1100. doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1100
Tignat-Perrier, R., Dommergue, A., Vogel, T.M., Larose, C. 2020. Microbial Ecology of the Planetary Boundary Layer. Atmosphere 2020, 11, 1296; doi:10.3390/atmos11121296
Holland AT, Bergk Pinto B, Layton R, Williamson CJ, Anesio AM, Vogel TM, Larose C and Tranter M. 2020. Over Winter Microbial Processes in a Svalbard Snow Pack: An Experimental Approach. Front. Microbiol. 11:1029. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01029
Bergk Pinto B, Maccario L, Dommergue A, Vogel TM and Larose C (2019) Do Organic Substrates Drive Microbial Community Interactions in Arctic Snow? Front. Microbiol. 10:2492. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02492
Els, N., Larose, C., Baumann-Stanzer, K. Tignat-Perrier, R., Keuschnig, C., Vogel, T.M., Larose, C. 2019. Microbial composition in seasonal time series of free tropospheric air and precipitation reveals community separation. Aerobiologia 35, 671–701 doi:10.1007/s10453-019-09606-x
Tignat-Perrier, R., Dommergue, A., Thollot, A., Christoph Keuschnig, Olivier Magand, Timothy M. Vogel & Catherine Larose. 2019. Global airborne microbial communities controlled by surrounding landscapes and wind conditions. Sci Rep 9, 14441 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51073-4
Carolina Hoyos-Hernandez, Christelle Courbert, Caroline Simonucci, Sebastien David, Timothy M Vogel, Catherine Larose. 2019. Community structure and functional genes in radionuclide contaminated soils in Chernobyl and Fukushima, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 366:180, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnz180
Baloh P, Els N, David RO, Larose C, Whitmore K, Sattler B and Grothe H (2019) Assessment of Artificial and Natural Transport Mechanisms of Ice Nucleating Particles in an Alpine Ski Resort in Obergurgl, Austria. Front. Microbiol. 10:2278. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02278
Maccario, L., Carpenter, S.D., Deming, J.W. Vogel, T.M., Larose, C. 2019. Sources and selection of snow-specific microbial communities in a Greenlandic sea ice snow cover. Sci Rep 9, 2290 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-38744-y
Schostag, M.D., Muhammad Zohaib Anwar, Carsten Suhr Jacobsen, Catherine Larose, Timothy M. Vogel, Lorrie Maccario, Samuel Jacquiod, Samuel Faucherre, Anders Priemé 2019. Transcriptomic responses to warming and cooling of an Arctic tundra soil microbiome. bioRxiv, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/599233.
Els N, Baumann-Stanzer K, Larose C, Vogel TM, Sattler B. Beyond the planetary boundary layer: Bacterial and fungal vertical biogeography at Mount Sonnblick, Austria. Geo: Geography and Environment. 2019;e00069. https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.69
Dommergue A, Amato P, Tignat-Perrier R, Magand O, Thollot A, Joly M, Bouvier L, Sellegri K, Vogel T, Sonke JE, Jaffrezo J-L, Andrade M, Moreno I, Labuschagne C, Martin L, Zhang Q and Larose C (2019) Methods to Investigate the Global Atmospheric Microbiome. Front. Microbiol. 10:243. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00243
Fedrizzi, F., Ramos, D.T., Lazzarin, H.S.C., Fernandes., Larose, C., Vogel, T.M., Corseuil, H.X. 2017. A Modified Approach for in Situ Chemical Oxidation Coupled to Biodegradation Enhances Light Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Source-Zone Remediation. Environ. Sci. Technol. 51:463–472.
Müller, J. B., Ramos, D. T., Larose, C., Fernandes, M., Lazzarin, H. S.C., Vogel, T. M., Corseuil, H. X. 2017. Combined iron and sulfate reduction biostimulation as a novel approach to enhance BTEX and PAH source-zone biodegradation in biodiesel blend-contaminated groundwater. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 326: 229-236.
Maccario L, Sanguino L, Vogel TM, Larose C., 2015. Snow and ice ecosystems: not so extreme. Res Microbiol.:166(10):782-95. doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2015.09.002.
Sanguino, L. Franqueville, L., Vogel, TM., Larose, C. 2015. Linking environmental prokaryotic viruses and their host through CRISPRs. FEMS Microbial. Ecol. 91: 10.1093/femsec/fiv046
Maccario L, Vogel TM and Larose C (2014) Potential drivers of microbial community structure and function in Arctic spring snow. Front. Microbiol. 5:413. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00413
Larose, C., Dommergue, A., Vogel, T.M. The Dynamic Arctic Snow Pack: An Unexplored Environment for Microbial Diversity and Activity. Biology, 2013, 2 (1), pp. 317-330. <http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology2010317>
Douglas, T.A., Lisa Loseto, Robie Macdonald, Peter Outridge, Aurélien Dommergue, Alexandre Poulain, Marc Amyot, Tamar Barkay, Torunn Berg, John Chételat, Philippe Constant, Marlene Evans, Christophe Ferrari, Nikolaus Gantner, Matthew Johnson, Jane Kirk, Niels Kroer, Catherine Larose, David Lean, Torkel Nielsen, Laurier Poissant, Sigurd Rognerud, Henrik Skov, Søren Sørensen, Feiuye Wang, Simon Wilson, Christian Zdanowicz. The fate of mercury in Arctic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, a review. Environmental Chemistry, 2012, 9 (4), pp. 321-355. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/EN11140>
Castro, L., Dommergue, A., Larose, C. Ferrari, C., Maron, L. 2012. A Theoretical Study of Abiotic Methylation Reactions of Gaseous Elemental Mercury by Halogen-Containing Molecules. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115 (22), pp. 5602-5608. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp200643n>
Delmont, T.O. Malandain, C., Prestat, E. Larose, C. Monier, J-M., Simonet, P. Vogel, T.M. 2011. Metagenomic mining for microbiologists. ISME Journal 5: 1837-1843.
Larose, C., Dommergue, A., De Angelis, M., Cossa, D., Averty, B., Marusczak, N., Soumis, N., Schneider, D., and Ferrari, C.: 2011. Springtime changes in snow chemistry lead to new insights into mercury methylation in the arctic, Geochim. Cosmochim.Acta, in Press.
Larose, C., S.l Berger, C. Ferrari, E. Navarro, A.n Dommergue, D. Schneider, Vogel, T.M. 2010. Microbial sequences retrieved from environmental samples from seasonal Arctic snow and meltwater from Svalbard, Norway. Extremophiles. DOI: 10.1007/s00792-009-0299-2
Dommergue A, Larose C, Faïn X, Clarisse O, Foucher D, Hintelmann H, Schneider D, Ferrari CP. 2010. Deposition of mercury species in the Ny-Alesund area (79 degrees N) and their transfer during snowmelt. Environ Sci Technol. 44:901-7.