Applied Microbiology

Biography

Marjolaine Martin started her education at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liège) in 2005. She ended her studies in 2010, with a 4 months stay in Bolivia where she realized a part of her master thesis regarding the prevalence of the Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus in bovine and lamas farm. After graduation, she was immediately hired to start a PhD as a research and teaching assistant at the Microbiology and Genomics Unit of her university. Begin 2012, she realized a 7 months stay at the Biological Station of Roscoff (Britanny, France). There, she worked on the microflora associated with brown and red algae and get to know to work with this new environment. She presented her results at the National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences (NSABS18 in Ghent (Belgium)), where she received the best oral presentation in the “Human health and Biotechnology” session. She published a review in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology dealing with the diversity and the biotechnological potential of those communities. A second paper followed quickly concerning the identification and purification of an interesting cold adapted and halotolerantendo-glucanase in the prestigious American review of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. She is now, ending her PhD while working on cultivable microorganisms associated with the brown alga Ascophyllumnodosum and their biotechnological potential.

Abstract

Abstract : Biotechnological potential of the microflora associated with the brown alga Ascophyllum nodosum