Projects

Main current and recent projects :

DatesProjectFull nameFunding
2024-2028PHARM-ERA

Improving monitoring and environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals, antimicrobial resistance and pathogens from terrestrial to aquatic environments

Project Leader

Horizon Europe - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)- Doctoral Networks
2023-2027Diagno-PICT

Potential of PICT approaches, combined with metabarcoding (microbial DNA) and chemical fingerprinting, as biomonitoring and diagnostic tools of chemical pressure in polluted hydrosystems

Project Leader

French Office for Biodiversity (OFB)
2023-2027PharmOneHealth

Exposure and adaptation of microbial communities to pharmaceutical substances and microbiological agents in aquatic environments: Implications for the development and dissemination of antibiotic resistance determinants and pathogens

Project Leader

French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES)
2023-2027ReFFE

Structural and functional responses of river benthic microbial communities to environmental fluctuations associated with global change

Project Partner

Electricity of France (EDF)
2021-2023PHARMATOX

Temporal and spatial variation in pharmaceutical concentrations in urban and agricultural stream: resulting effects on periphytic and sediment microbial communities.

Project Leader

Rhône Méditerranée Corse Water Agency
2021-2024PESTINTER

Evaluation of multiple effects (social and environmental) of pesticides contamination in aquatic ecosystems : an interdisciplinary pilot case-study (la Cleurie, Vosges).

Project Partner

French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES)
2021-2024TAPIOCA

Characterize chronic exposure to transformation products from phytopharmaceutical products and their ecotoxicological effects in aquatic ecosystems.

Project Partner

French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) and the French Ministry of the Environment – ECOPHYTO Plan
2018-2022ANTIBIOTOX

Fate of antibiotics and associated resistance genes in agroecosystems: ecotoxicological risk for functional microbial communities of receiving river systems.

Project Partner (responsible for WPs 3 and 4)

French Research Agency ANR
2018-2021ANTIBIOTOOLS

A set of tools to monitor antibiotic and antibiotic resistances in aquatic ecosystems.

Project Leader

French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES)
2018-2020PERSORESTO

Efficiency and social perception of the restoration of the Tillet River and of the water quality of the Bourget Lake.

Project Leader

Rhône Méditerranée Corse Water Agency
2017-2019COMMUSED

Structural and functional assessment of benthic microbial and invertebrate communities to evaluate the ecological quality of polluted rivers.

Project Leader

Rhône Méditerranée Corse Water Agency
2017-2018SANO-FILMS

Molecular and functional study of microbial biofilms to assess ecotoxicological effects of pharmaceutical industry effluents.

Project Leader

SANOFI
2017-2018SEDIPICT

Validation and application of Pollution Induced Community Tolerance (PICT) measurement to evaluate in situ effects of pollutants on sediment microbial communities.

Project Leader

French Office for Biodiversity (OFB)
2017-2018TRACES

Transfer and ecotoxicological effects of metals in alpine streams surrounding disused mines.

Project Partner

EC2CO Program
2016-2019IMPACT-CE

Development and transfer of chemical and biological tools to monitor the impact of agricultural practices on lotic ecosystems.

Project Partner

French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) and the French Ministry of the Environment – ECOPHYTO Plan
2016-2018COOPERA

French-Swiss project to develop ecotoxicological tools at community level to assess the ecological quality of contaminated sediments.

Project Leader

French Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region
2016-2018ECOBIOPEST

Effects of pesticides on lotic ecosystems in the Auvergne territory: functional response and adaptation of leaf litter microbial communities.

Project Partner

Loire-Bretagne Water Agency

 

Modification date: 13 May 2024 | Publication date: 05 June 2023 | By: Stéphane Pesce