Dr. Christina Hazard
Researcher
Laboratoire Ampère
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Université de Lyon
36 avenue Guy de Collongue
69134 Ecully cedex
France
christina.hazard@ec-lyon.fr
+33 (0) 472 18 60 91
Research Interests
Our research is dedicated to exploring the diversity and distribution of soil microorganisms and viruses in natural and anthropized ecosystems, the factors influencing their communities and activities, and impact on biogeochemical cycling. Our research includes a focus on specific microbial functional groups such as mycorrhizal fungi, which form symbioses with the majority of plants, are found in most terrestrial habitats, and provide several ecosystem services. Our work delves into the ecology of nitrogen and methane cycling microbes and their viruses with the aim to mitigate N pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the environment. We are fascinated by soil viruses, which are abundant, diverse and dynamic in soils, yet we are only beginning to understand their impact on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycling. We use field surveys & experiments, and greenhouse and controlled laboratory experiments implementing multiple techniques such as omics, culturing, stable isotope and greenhouse gas analyses.
Research Projects
- JGI-Community Science Program: Scaling wetland viral impacts on methane cycling from single cells to ecosystems. (funder, JGI; Co-PI) 2023-2026
- JGI-Commmunity Science Program: Determining in situ rates of host-virus evolution in soil. (funder, JGI; PI) 2023-2024
- CONSERVE: Controlling nitrification in soil by exploiting virus ecology. (funder, ANR; Co-PI) 2022-2026
- ViBNI: Pipeline for development of virus-mediated biological nitrification inhibition to mitigate GHG emissions from cultivated soils. (funder, Grantham Foundation, USA; Coordinator) 2022-2025
- ACTIONr: Research action network for reducing reactive nitrogen losses from agricultural ecosystems. (funder, HORIZON-WIDERA, EU; Co-PI) 2022-2025
- FUNCTION: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interactions in the nitrogen cycle for mitigating nitrous oxide emissions from agroecosystems. (funder, ANR; Coordinator) 2021-2024
- ARISTO: The European industry – Academia network for revising and advancing the assessment of the soil microbial toxicity of pesticides. (funder, Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN; Co-PI) 2021-2024
- FBF: Investigating the diversity and distribution of fungal viruses in soil. (funder, France-Berkeley Fund, PI) 2022-2023
- STEP: Understanding the diversity and distribution of fungal viruses in soil to facilitate sustainable agriculture. (funder, École Centrale de Lyon, Coordinator) 2021-2022
- COMICONS: Comammox microorganisms contribution to nitrification in soil. (funder, ANR; Co-I) 2019-2023
- MultiMyco: Multiscale determinants of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. (funder, LabEX CEBA; Co-PI) 2019-2020
- JGI-Community Science Program: Determining the interactions of viruses with prokaryotic hosts controlling nitrogen cycling in soil. (funder, JGI; Co-PI) 2018-2019
Current Members
- Ruoyu Hu, since 2021. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interactions in the nitrogen cycle.
- Mia Sungeun Lee, since 2020. Soil prokaryotic viruses, and nitrifier distribution and niches.
- Felana Andrianjakarivony, since 2023. Viruses of soil nitrifiers.
- Rakshita Govind, since 2023. Cultivation of soil nitrifiers.
- Séréna Albert, since 2023. Nitrification inhibitors impact on soil microbial communities and GHG emissions.
- Eleftheria Bachtsevani, since 2021. In vitro assessment of toxicity of pesticides on ammonia oxidizing microorganisms.
- Yuanyuan Zhang, since 2021. Investigating the diversity and activity of RNA viruses in soil.
- Huaiyu Wang, since 2021. Determining the scale and rates of adaptation by methane-oxidizing bacteria in response to in situ virus interactions.
Former Members
- Mia Sungeun Lee, 2016-2020. Thesis: Virus-host interactions across a soil pH gradient at the community and individual scale.
- Valentin Aimard, 2021. Intern Report: Study of the specificity of host-bacteriophage interactions in soil.
- Sophie Ravelli, 2018. Thesis: The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on nitrification in soil.
- Fatou Tall Mbow. 2017. Thesis: Intraspecific variation in nitrogen source uptake in the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Lacarria bicolor.
- Mia Sungeun Lee, 2016. Thesis: Effect of cropping systems and nitrogen fertilization on microbial diversity.
- Naima Mouhoubi, 2016. Thesis: Investigation of the diversity of microbes in organic amended agriculture soils.
- Lydia Nieme, 2014. Thesis: Competition for nitrogen between and within species of ectomycorrhizal fungi using stable isotopes.
- Tengetile Nxumalo. 2013. Thesis: Inorganic verses organic nitrogen uptake within species of ectomyocrrhizal fungi using stable isotopes.
- Shumammite Ogbu. 2013. Thesis: Importance of genotypic ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity for fungal productivity.
Publications
Lee S, Sieradzki ET, Nicol GW, Hazard C. 2023. Propagation of viral genomes by replicating ammonia-oxidising archaea during soil nitrification. ISME Journal. doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01341-5
Watmough SA, Gilbert-Parkes S, Basiliko N, Lamit LJ, Lilleskov EA, Andersen R. et al. Hazard C, et al. 2022. Variation in carbon and nitrogen concentrations among peatland categories at the global scale. PloS ONE. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275149
Watmough SA, Gilbert-Parkes S, Basiliko N, Lamit LJ, Lilleskov EA, Andersen R. et al. Hazard C, et al. 2022. Latitude, elevation, and mean annual temperature predict peat organic matter chemistry at a global scale. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007057
Lee S, Sorensen JW, Walker RL, Emerson JB, Nicol GW, Hazard C. 2022. Soil pH influences the structure of virus communities at local and global scales. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 166: 108569. doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108569
Lee S, Sieradzki ET, Nicolas AM, Walker RL, Firestone MK, *Hazard C, *Nicol GW. 2021. Methane-derived carbon flows into host-virus networks at different trophic levels in soil. PNAS 118: e2105124118. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105124118
Finn DR, Lee S, Lanzén A, Bertrand M, Nicol GW, Hazard C. 2021. Cropping systems impact changes in soil fungal, but not prokaryote, alpha-diversity and community composition stability over a growing season in a long-term field trial. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 97: fiab136. doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab136
Finn DR, Bergk-Pinto B, Hazard C, Nicol GW, Tebbe C, Vogel TM. 2021. Functional trait relationships demonstrate life strategies in terrestrial prokaryotes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 97: fiab068. doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab068
Hazard C, Prosser JI, Nicol GW. 2021. Use and abuse of potential rates in soil microbiology. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 157: 108242. doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108242
Hung Y, Jing J, Yan M, Hazard C, Chen Y, Guo C, Xiao X, Lin J. 2021. Contribution of pathogenic fungi to N2O emissions increases temporally in intensively managed strawberry cropping soil. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 105: 2043-2056. doi.org/10.1007/s00253-021-11163-8
Hazard C, Johnson D. 2018. Does genotypic and species diversity of mycorrhizal plants and fungi affect ecosystem function? New Phytologist 220: 1122-1128. doi.org/10.1111/nph.15010
Hazard C, Kruitbos L, Davidson H, Taylor AFS, Johnson D. 2017. Contrasting effects of intra- and interspecific identity and richness of ectomycorrhizal fungi on host plants, nutrient retention and multifunctionality. New Phytologist 213: 852-863. doi.org/10.1111/nph.14184
Grubisha LC, Dowie NJ, Miller SL, Hazard C, Horton TR, Trowbridge SM. 2014. Rhizopogon Kretzerae sp. nov.: the rare fungal symbiont in the tripartite system with Pterospora andromedea and Pinus strobus. Botany 92: 527-534. doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2013-0309
Hazard C, Boots B, Keith AM, Mitchell DT, Schmidt O, Doohan FM, Bending GD. 2014. Temporal variation outweighs effects of biosolids applications in shaping arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities on plants grown in pasture and arable soils. Applied Soil Ecology 82:52-60. doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2014.05.007
Hazard C, Gosling P, Mitchell DT, Doohan FM, Bending GD. 2014. Diversity of fungi associated with hair roots of ericaceous plants is affected by land use. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 87: 586-600. doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12247
Hazard C, Gosling P, van der Gast C, Mitchell DT, Doohan FM, Bending GD. 2013. The role of local environment and geographical distance in determining community composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at the landscape scale. ISME Journal 7: 498-508. doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2012.127
Keith A, Boots B, Hazard C, Niechoj R, Arroyo J, Bolger T, Breen J, Clipson N, Doohan FM, Griffin CT, Schmidt O. 2012. Cross-taxa congruence, indicators and environmental drivers in soils under agricultural and extensive land management. European Journal of Soil Biology 49: 55-62. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2011.08.002
Hazard C, Lilleskov EA, Horton TR. 2011. Is rarity of pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea) in eastern North America linked to rarity of its unique fungal symbiont? Mycorrhiza 22: 393-402. doi.org/10.1007/s00572-011-0414-y
Schmidt O, Keith AM, Arroyo J, Bolger T, Boots B, Breen J, Clipson N, Doohan FM, Griffin CT, Hazard C, Niechoj R. 2011. CréBeo – Baseline data, response to pressures, functions and conservation of keystone micro- and macro-organisms in Irish soils. Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland. ISBN: 978-1-84095-388-6. https://www.epa.ie/researchandeducation/research/researchpublications/strivereports/strive67.html
Kelsall N*, Hazard C*, Leopold DJ. 2004. Influence of climate factors on demographic changes in New York population of the federally-listed Phyllitis scolopendium (L.) Newm. var. americana. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 13: 161-168. doi.org/10.2307/4126917
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 2020 Permanent Researcher, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, FR
- 2015 – 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, FR
- 2011 – 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Aberdeen, UK
- 2010 Ph.D. University College Dublin, IRE
- 2006 M.S. State University of NY, ESF, USA
- 2003 B.S. State University of NY, ESF, USA