Madame Rabja POPALL / PhD

Enseignement et recherche, enseignement supérieur*Recherche en milieu académique*Recherche en entreprise, R&D du secteur privé*Expertise, études et conseils dans des organisations, cabinets ou sociétés fournissant des prestations intellectuelles, des expertises scientifiques, prospectives ou stratégiques*Médiation scientifique, communication et journalisme scientifique, édition scientifique, relations internationales*chercheur en milieu académique*chercheur en entreprise, R&D du secteur privé*

Contact details

rabja.popall@web.de

Professional contact details

MIO Luminy, ,

Jobs

Additional information : • Arts and creative writing • Yoga

Research : NON

Skills

• Interdisciplinary project on the origin of life with independent artist (ongoing)

Techniques

LABORATORY • DNA extraction: environmental samples (sediment, water, fish gut, microbial mats, hydrothermal chimneys), culture samples • RNA extraction: environmental samples (hydrothermal chimneys), culture samples • DNA/RNA treatment: PCR, qPCR, qPCR standard development including cloning, gel electrophoresis, quantitation via Nanodrop and Qubit, DNA purification, DNAse treatment, quality control via Bioanalyzer • DNA-SIP (accompanied) • Cultivation of aerobes, anaerobes, mesophiles, hyperthermophiles, alkaliphiles • Experimental work on carbonate biomineralization • Experimental work in bioelectrochemical systems • Experimental work in fermenters • Fluorescence microscopy • Ion chromatography • High-performance liquid chromatography • SEM-EDS (accompanied) • TEM-EDS and electron diffraction (accompanied) FIELD • Prony Bay, New Caledonia (4 weeks): Sampling of live biomass, sediment, gas and fluids from shallow hydrothermal vents; microcosm experiments COMPUTATIONAL • Metagenomics, metatranscriptomics (bash, SLURM) • Metabarcoding (R) • Biostatistics (R) • MS Excel

PhD

Title : Sciences de l'environnement : Océanographie

First registration date : 1 October 2021 / 1A

Doctoral school : Sciences de l'Environnement

Thesis defense date : 9 December 2024

Subject : Production primaire microbienne dans le système serpentinisé de la baie de Prony, un analogue de la Terre primitive

Thesis supervisor : ERAUSO Gaël

Thesis co-supervisor : POSTEC Anne

Research unit : MIO - Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie

Master's degree

Title : Biological Sciences, MSc

August 2021 - Université d'Amsterdam

Publications

  • Metabolic challenges and key players in serpentinite-hosted microbial ecosystems
    Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
    Rabja Maria Popall, Anne Postec, Aurélien Lecoeuvre, Marianne Quéméneur, Gaël Erauso
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1197823
  • Screening for Hyperthermophilic Electrotrophs for the Microbial Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds
    Microorganisms, 2022
    Rabja Maria Popall, Alenica Heussner, Sven Kerzenmacher, Pierre-Pol Liebgott, Guillaume Pillot
    https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10112249
  • Stromatolites as Biosignatures of Atmospheric Oxygenation: Carbonate Biomineralization and UV-C Resilience in a Geitlerinema sp. - Dominated Culture
    Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
    Rabja M. Popall, Henk Bolhuis, Gerard Muyzer, Mónica Sánchez-Román
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00948

Languages