Mercuromix

The Mercuromix project, financially supported by the Fondation Les Bois Chamblard, aims to compare mercury methylation, biodiversity and microbial activity involved in these processes in contrasting physico-chemical zones of Lake Geneva. This project aims to show the interest of coupling high-throughput biological, metagenomic and metaproteomic analysis to identify microbial structure and functionality, with physicochemical analysis, in order to better anticipate environmental conditions related to methylmercury formation.

• Funding : Fondation Les Bois Chamblard
• 2020-2022
• UNIGE Principal Investigator : Jean-Luc Loizeau
• Collaboration : Uni Reims (C. Cosio), ICM Barcelona (A. Garcia Bravo), IMB Universtät Greifswald (T. Schweder)