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Patricia Bonin is affiliated with the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography in France. Their research is primarily rooted in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Pollution as key subfields.

The scientist's main research interests cover topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Bonin has contributed publications to various scientific journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microorganisms
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiology Spectrum

Selected recent publications include:

  • The role of coupled DNRA-Anammox during nitrate removal in a highly saline lake (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Similar Methanogenic Shift but Divergent Syntrophic Partners in Anaerobic Digesters Exposed to Direct versus Successive Ammonium Additions (2021), Microbiology Spectrum
  • Ecosystem maturity modulates greenhouse gases fluxes from artificial lakes (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Meta-omics Provides Insights into the Impact of Hydrocarbon Contamination on Microbial Mat Functioning (2020), Microbial Ecology
  • Increasing Hydrostatic Pressure Impacts the Prokaryotic Diversity during Emiliania huxleyi Aggregates Degradation (2021), Water

Bonin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably including Sophie Guasco, Christopher Burot, Rémi Amiraux, Jean-François Rontani, and Guillaume Pillot.

In addition to journal articles, Bonin has contributed to book publications, notably appearing in the American Geophysical Union with the book titled Biogeochemical Cycles published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, extremely halotolerant, hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium

    Michel J. Gauthier;Bénédicte Lafay;Richard Christen;Luis Fernandez

  • Comparison of Methods for Quantification of Cytochrome cd1-Denitrifying Bacteria in Environmental Marine Samples

    Valérie Michotey;Vincent Méjean;Patricia Bonin

  • Influence of shellfish farming activities on nitrification, nitrate reduction to ammonium and denitrification at the water-sediment interface of the Thau lagoon, France

    Franck Gilbert;Philippe Souchu;Micheline Bianchi;Patricia Bonin

  • Effects of oxygen on each step of denitrification on Pseudomonas nautica

    P. Bonin;M. Gilewicz;J. C. Bertrand

  • Anaerobic nitrate reduction to ammonium in two strains isolated from coastal marine sediment: A dissimilatory pathway

    Patricia Bonin

  • Nitrogen-limited mangrove ecosystems conserve N through dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium

    Sheryl Oliveira Fernandes;Patricia C. Bonin;Valérie D. Michotey;Nicole Garcia

  • Influence of bioturbation on denitrification activity in Mediterranean coastal sediments:an in situ experimental approach

    Franck Gilbert;Georges Stora;Patricia Bonin

  • Simultaneous occurrence of denitrification and nitrate ammonification in sediments of the French Mediterranean Coast

    Patricia Bonin;Patrick Omnes;Alain Chalamet

  • Denitrification prevails over anammox in tropical mangrove sediments (Goa, India).

    Sheryl Oliveira Fernandes;Valérie D. Michotey;Sophie Guasco;Patricia C. Bonin

  • Determination of the bacterial processes which are sources of nitrous oxide production in marine samples.

    Patricia Bonin;Christian Tamburini;Valerie Michotey

  • Mannitol metabolism in brown algae involves a new phosphatase family

    Agnès Groisillier;Zhanru Shao;Zhanru Shao;Gurvan Michel;Sophie Goulitquer

  • Seasonal and diel distributions of denitrifying and bacterial communities in a hypersaline microbial mat (Camargue, France).

    Christelle Desnues;Valérie D. Michotey;Andrea Wieland;Cui Zhizang

  • Isolation and characterization of Thermanaerothrix daxensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic bacterium pertaining to the phylum “Chloroflexi”, isolated from a deep hot aquifer in the Aquitaine Basin

    Patrick Gregoire;Marie Laure Fardeau;Manon Joseph;Sophie Guasco

  • Effect of bioturbation on denitrification in a marine sediment from the West Mediterranean littoral

    Franck Gilbert;Patricia Bonin;Georges Stora

  • Pressure-Retaining Sampler and High-Pressure Systems to Study Deep-Sea Microbes Under in situ Conditions

    Marc Garel;Patricia Bonin;Séverine Martini;Sophie Guasco

  • Production of Wax Esters during Aerobic Growth of Marine Bacteria on Isoprenoid Compounds

    Jean-Francois Rontani;Patricia C. Bonin;John K. Volkman

  • Bacterial nitrification and denitrification rates in the Rhone River plume (northwestern Mediterranean Sea)

    M. Bianchi;P. Bonin;Feliatra

  • Bacterial biogas production in coastal systems affected by freshwater inputs

    D Marty;P Bonin;V Michotey;M Bianchi

  • Biodegradation of Free Phytol by Bacterial Communities Isolated from Marine Sediments under Aerobic and Denitrifying Conditions

    Jean-François Rontani;Patricia C. Bonin;John K. Volkman

  • Aminobacterium thunnarium sp. nov., a mesophilic, amino acid-degrading bacterium isolated from an anaerobic sludge digester, pertaining to the phylum Synergistetes.

    Olfa Hamdi;Olfa Hamdi;Wajdi Ben Hania;Anne Postec;Hassib Bouallagui

  • Denitrification : An important Pathway for Nitrous Oxide Production in Tropical Mangrove Sediments (Goa, India)

    Sheryl Oliveira Fernandes;P.A. Loka Bharathi;Patricia C. Bonin;Valérie D. Michotey

  • Denitrification by a marine bacterium Pseudomonas nautica strain 617.

    P. Bonin;M. Gilewicz;J.C. Bertrand

  • Degradation of alkenones and related compounds during oxic and anoxic incubation of the marine haptophyte Emiliania huxleyi with bacterial consortia isolated from microbial mats from the Camargue, France

    Jean-François Rontani;Patricia Bonin;Ian Jameson;John K. Volkman

  • Molecular, biochemical, and physiological approaches for understanding the ecology of denitrification.

    Christelle Goréguès;Valerie Michotey;Patricia Bonin

  • Degradation of alkenones by aerobic heterotrophic bacteria: Selective or not?

    Jean-François Rontani;Ranjita Harji;Sophie Guasco;Fredrick G. Prahl

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation mediated by Mn-oxides: from sediment to strain level

    Cedric Javanaud;Valerie Michotey;Sophie Guasco;Nicole Garcia

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Duran
Robert Duran University of Pau and the Adour Region
Franck Gilbert
Franck Gilbert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
John K. Volkman
John K. Volkman Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Bernard Ollivier
Bernard Ollivier Aix-Marseille University
Nicole Garcia
Nicole Garcia Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Wolfgang Wanek
Wolfgang Wanek University of Vienna
Thomas Hein
Thomas Hein BOKU University
Olivier Radakovitch
Olivier Radakovitch Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
Marcel Babin
Marcel Babin Université Laval
Pierre Anschutz
Pierre Anschutz University of Bordeaux

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