M. Pradeep Ram ANGIA SRIRAM

Broadly, my area of research and competence has been in the field of Microbial Ecology of Marine and Freshwater Systems with prime focus on the aspects linking viruses to microbial physiology, metabolisms and diversity. My subject of interest under the research team BioADAPT (Microbial diversity and functional adaptations) at LMGE falls into the following topics:

• Limnology and microbial oceanography
• Aquatic microbial food-web dynamics, microbial transfer of organic carbon
• Phage life cycles (lytic and lysogeny) and infection strategies, virus-mediated processes
• Top-down and bottom-up effects on bacterial dynamics and community structure
• Phage-bacteria interactions in tropical marine (Indian Ocean) and freshwater systems (French Massif Central lakes and mineral springs)
• Bacteria-protozoa-virus interactions
• Freshwater viriobenthosMetabolomics approach to study intracellular metabolites in prokaryote cells with different physiological state

Keywords: aquatic microbial ecology; viruses, bacteria; viral lytic infection; lysogeny; microbial dynamics, bacteria-virus interaction; viral shunt, microbial food webs, laboratory microcosms