EDUCATION

• Postdoctorate at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon (FRANCE).
  Bacterial community structure in the ultramafic soil of New-Caledonia.
  Adaptation of microorganisms to heavy metal high concentration.
  
  
• PhD at the University Claude Bernard of Lyon (FRANCE), partnership with the Center of Environmental Biotechnology of Knoxville, TN (USA).
  Title: Les gènes eth responsables de l'oxydation de l'éthyl-tert-butyl ether : fonctionnalité, régulation et application.
  Other research subject: Development of bioluminescent bioreporter for the detection of the eth genes.
  
  
• Master at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg.
• Maitrise in Microbiology at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg.
• Licence in Microbiology at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg.
• DEUG in Biology at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

"Biosensors for the Environment" C. Malandain, F. Fayolle-Guichard and H. Bedouelle. Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Rev. IFP, Vol. 60 (2005), No. 6, pp. 887-897

"Enzymes and genes involved in the aerobic biodegradation of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE)." Lopes Ferreira N, Malandain C, Fayolle-Guichard F. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2006 Sep;72(2):252-62. Epub 2006 Jun 28. Review.

"Two arginine repressors regulate arginine biosynthesis in Lactobacillus plantarum." Nicoloff H, Arsène-Ploetze F, Malandain C, Kleerebezem M, Bringel F. J Bacteriol. 2004 Sep;186(18):6059-69.



POSTERS

10th BAGECO meeting
"Geomicrobiology of extreme soils." Cédric Malandain, Jean-Paul Ambrosi, Elodie Vicini, Sébastien Cécillon,
Timothy M. Vogel, Elisabeth Navarro

10th BAGECO meeting
"Distribution and regulation of cytochromes P450 involved in fuel oxygenates degradation." Cédric Malandain, Françoise Fayolle-Guichard , Timothy M. Vogel

12th ISME meeting
"Geomicrobiology of extreme soils along a transect-slope" Cédric Malandain, Jean-Paul Ambrosi (IRD), Elodie Vicini, Sébastien Cécillon, Timothy M. Vogel, Elisabeth Navarro.

107th ASM meeting:
"Development of a bioreporter for the detection of ETBE in the environment in Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155." Cédric Malandain, Steve Ripp, Francoise Fayolle-Guichard, Timothy Vogel, Frederic Monot, Gary Sayler.

106th ASM meeting:
"Development of  a bioreporter for the detection of the ether-carburants. Cédric Malandain, Steve Ripp, Francoise Fayolle-Guichard, Timothy Vogel, Frederic Monot, Gary Sayler.

CURRICULUM VITAE