M. Pierre AMATO
CRCN CNRS section 30 (INEE) HDR - Microbiologie de l'atmosphèreCoordonnées
Activités / CV
ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3168-0398
LOOP profile: https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/389337/overview
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=8xrqo7EAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao
ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pierre_Amato
Miscellaneous:
- President of the scientific evaluation committee CNRS EC2CO MICROBIOME https://programmes.insu.cnrs.fr/ec2co/microbiome/
- Associate Editor in Frontiers in Microbiology, section Extreme Microbiology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/sections/extreme-microbiology#editorial-board
- Associate Editor in Aerobiologia (Springer) https://link.springer.com/journal/10453
- Editorial Board Member in Discover Bacteria (Springer) https://link.springer.com/journal/44351
- Editor of the book “Microbiology of Aerosols”, Delort & Amato (eds), Wiley (2017), 320 pp. Print ISBN: 9781119132288 ; Online ISBN: 9781119132318 ; DOI: 10.1002/9781119132318.
- Member of the Scientific Evaluation Panel TNA-ACCESS (access to European infrastructures for atmospheric research)
Main on-going and recent projects
2020-2024 NSERC ARG (collaborator)
2019-2023 ANR PRC METACLOUD (PI) https://anr-metacloud.cnrs.fr/
2019-2023 ANR PRC BIOMAIDO (collaborator)
2018-2023 ANR MOPGA MOBIDIC (PI)
Supervision
PhDs:
2025-... Marceau Larouère: Online dectection of airborne fungal spores
2022-… Frédéric Mathonat: Enviromnetal and intrinsic drivers of microbial activity in the atmosphere
2019-2022 Raphaëlle Péguilhan : Clouds as oases for microbes in the atmosphere
2019-2022 Christelle Ghaffar : Microbial activity in the atmosphere
2010-2013 Muriel Joly: Ice nucleation activity and survival of microorganisms in the atmosphere
PostDocs:
2024 Antoine Vergne: Hist'EAUrix: collecte de données d'archives sur le lac d'Aydat et le bassin versant de la Veyre (Pole Eau)
2022-2024 Tiphaine Labed-Veydert: biological and chemical signature of water from clouds to lakes at the watershed level (ISITE)
2021-2022 Jonathan Vyskocil: Utilization of formaldehyde by microorganisms in cloud(omics approaches) (ANR METACLOUD)
2020-2021 Florent Rossi: Antibiotic resistance genes in the atmosphere (NSERC ARG)
2019-2021 Florent Rossi: Quantification of microbial activity in clouds (CNRS INC)
2016-2017 Muriel Joly: Seasonal variations of airborne microbial diversity at puy de Dôme (ANR INHALE)
2016-2017 Ludovic Besaury: Chloromethane utilization by microorganisms in clouds (ANR CHLOROFILTER)
Master students and Others:
2024 Marie Prévot (M2): Processus écologiques mis en jeu par le transport atmosphérique de bactéries: cas de la photosynthèse anoxxygénique
2023 Chloé Trubert (M2): Characterization of pigments in microorganisms from clouds
2021 Antoine Lafont (M2): Nutritional limitations for microorganisms in the atmosphere (ANR MOBIDIC)
2020 Thomas Charpentier (50%, M2): Microbial diversity in clouds and aerosols at La Réunion (ANR BIOMAIDO)
2019 Marie Fontenelle (50%, IUT2): Drivers of the spatial distribution of ice nucleation active bacteria and impacts on plant frost damages
2019 Margot Ramoger (50%, BTS1): Development of a method for the detection and quantification of microplastics from bacteria pigments
2019 Camille Fagot (IUT2): Emissions of microorganisms from ocean’ surface
2019 (50%, M2): Metabolomics of the response to mercury in Pseudomonas syringae (ANR INHALE)
2018 Florence Correa (M1): Biodiversity of photosynthetic microorganisms in the atmosphere
2018 Glwadys Pouzet (M2): Esterase activity in atmospheric samples
2017 Antoine Perreux (M1) : Nutritional limitations for microorganisms in the atmosphere
2017 Glwadys Pouzet (M1): Statistics of biological ice nucleation active particles in precipitation
2016 Alain Dretz (M1): Methylotrophic bacteria in the atmosphere (ANR CHLOROFILTER)
2016 Elodie Péghaire (M1): Variability of biological ice nucleation active particles in precipitation
2016 Maxime Aguès (BTS2): Biological ice nucleation active particles in clouds and aerosols
2015 Benjamin Penaud (M1): Development of a bioinformatics workflow to investigate metatranscriptomes from clouds
2015 Anaïs Charton (M1): Development of a high flow rate impinger for efficient bioaerosol sampling
2014 Benjamin Chicot (M1): Development of a high flow rate impinger for efficient bioaerosol sampling
2013 Marine Klee (50%, M1): Characterization of exopolysaccharrides produced by microorganisms from clouds
2012 Laura Hueyt (M1): Methods to investigate Sphingomonas bacteria in the atmosphere
2011 Alexis Pireyre (M1): Identification of microorganisms isolated from clouds
Thèmes de recherche
I investigate the presence and implications of microorganisms in the outdoor atmosphere (aerosols, clouds and precipitations): microbial structural and functional biodiversity, survival, metabolic activity, physiology, and their variability in relation to environmental factors. This aims notably at understanding the role of the atmosphere in microbial dissemination and evolution, and the interactions existing between the airborne microbiota and atmospheric physico-chemical processes such as cloud chemistry or precipitation. I use and develop air sampling methods applicable to remote sites, and I apply in particular molecular profiling appoaches (-omics), cultures, enzymatic assays and other tools that can give information about the nature, metabolic state and fate of airborne microorganisms.
