Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget

Associate Professor

Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget

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CAREER

2015-present: Lecturer / Assoc. Professor in Environmental and Molecular Microbiology. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling. 

2010-2015: Research Fellow - CNRS. European Research Project FP7. Marine Metagenomics for new Biotechnological applications (MAMBA FP7-KBBE-2008-226977). Laboratory of Microbial Biodiversity and Biotechnology - Institute of Oceanography - Banyuls sur mer. Université Pierre et Marie Curie. UPMC. France

2009-2010: Research Fellow, ESA (European Space Agency). European Research Project. Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative (MELISSA, ESA-PRODEX). Department of Proteomics and Environmental Microbiology. University of Mons, Belgium.

EDUCATION

2005/2009: PhD, Joint Doctoral Degree. Cotutelle between University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris, France) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)

2005: Master degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology, UPMC, Paris, France

2003: BSc Hons in Molecular and Cellular Biology, UPMC, Paris, France

Research (6)

Sabine Matallana-Surget is an Associate Professor in Environmental and Molecular Microbiology. Her research focuses on the molecular responses of marine microorganisms to environmental stresses, using cutting edge technology (e.g. proteomics). Her expertise centres on microbial ecology, photobiology, and ecotoxicology with strengths in molecular biology. She focuses on the physiological and molecular responses of microbial communities to anthropogenic perturbations. She developed cutting edge science and technology especially in the area of Proteomics. Since her appointment as a Lecturer in 2015, she has been awarded several international and national grants from NERC, EPSRC, the Royal Society, Newton scheme, and Carnegie UK Trust. She has developed an international and multidisciplinary research group on environmental proteomics and microbial ecology.

She is currently leading a large international consortium on Plastic Pollution in South East Asia (NERC Award No. NE/V009621/1, NRF-NERC-SEAP-2020-0003), comprised of 22 partners, from 6 countries (UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Belgium). This consortium is part of the South East Asia Plastics (SEAP) Programme, and the awarded ongoing project is entitled 'Sources, Impacts, and Solutions for Plastics in Southeast Asia Coastal Environments' (website under construction). The research activities that she leads at UoS aim to characterise the functioning and activity of microbial biofilms inhabiting (micro)plastic debris collected across Southeast Asia, using innovative tools, such as metaproteomics.

Projects

Sources, impacts and solutions for plastics in South East Asia coastal environments
PI: Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Microbial hitch-hikers of marine plastics: survival, persistence and ecology of microbial communities in the 'Plastisphere'.
PI: Professor Richard Quilliam
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

Assessing the toxicity of UV-filters found in cosmetics and personal care products: Invisible threat to Ocean sustainability.
PI: Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust

OCEANCLOCK: Light/dark cycle in picoplankton in response to environmental change
PI: Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget
Funded by: Royal Society

MicMAC: Microbiology via Modelling and Acoustics
PI: Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget
Funded by: Scottish Crucible

Microbiology via Acoustics: Bacterial Behaviour in Complex Microbial Communities (BBC MiC)
PI: Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Outputs (36)

Outputs

Article

Lee C, Messer L, Holland S, Gutierrez T, Quilliam R & Matallana-Surget S (2023) The primary molecular influences of marine plastisphere formation and function: Novel insights into organism -organism and -co-pollutant interactions.. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2023.2224182


Article

Oliver DM, Metcalf R, Jones DL, Matallana-Surget S, Thomas DN, Robins P, Tulloch CL, Cotterell BM, Williams G, Christie-Oleza JA & Quilliam RS (2024) Plastic pollution and human pathogens: Towards a conceptual shift in risk management at bathing water and beach environments. Water Research, 261, Art. No.: 122028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122028


Article

Messer LF, Lee CE, Wattiez R & Matallana-Surget S (2024) Novel functional insights into the microbiome inhabiting marine plastic debris: critical considerations to counteract the challenges of thin biofilms using multi-omics and comparative metaproteomics. Microbiome, 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-024-01751-x


Article

Matallana-Surget S, Nigro LM, Waidner LA, Lebaron P, Wattiez R, Werner J, Fraser R, Dimitrov D, Watt R & Jeffrey WH (2024) Clarifying the murk: unveiling bacterial dynamics in response to crude oil pollution, Corexit-dispersant, and natural sunlight in the Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1337886


Book Chapter

Lozano C, Givens J, Stien D, Matallana-Surget S & Lebaron P (2020) Bioaccumulation and Toxicological Effects of UV-Filters on Marine Species. In: Tovar-Sánchez A, Sánchez-Quiles D & Blasco J (eds.) Sunscreens in Coastal Ecosystems: Occurrence, Behavior, Effect and Risk. Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 94. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 85-130. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2019_442


Article

Matallana-Surget S, Werner J, Wattiez R, Lebaron K, Intertaglia L, Regan C, Morris J, Teeling H, Ferrer M, Golyshin PN, Gerogiorgis D, Reilly SI & Lebaron P (2018) Proteogenomic Analysis of Epibacterium Mobile BBCC367, a Relevant Marine Bacterium Isolated From the South Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, Art. No.: 3125. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03125


Article

Perez VA, Hengst MB, Kurte L, Dorador C, Jeffrey WH, Wattiez R, Molina V & Matallana-Surget S (2017) Bacterial survival under extreme UV radiation: A comparative proteomics study of Rhodobacter sp., isolated from high altitude wetlands in Chile. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, Art. No.: 1173. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01173


Article

Matallana-Surget S, Cavicchioli R, Fauconnier C, Wattiez R, Baptiste L, Joux F, Raftery M & Lebaron P (2013) Shotgun redox proteomics: identification and quantitation of carbonylated proteins in the UVB resistant marine bacterium, Photobacterium angustum S14. PLoS ONE, 8 (7), Art. No.: e68112. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068112


Book Chapter

Williams T, Joux F, Lauro F, Matallana-Surget S & Cavicchioli R (2011) Physiology of marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacteria. In: Horikoshi K, Antranikian G, Bull A, Robb F & Stetter K (eds.) Extremophiles Handbook. Japan: Springer, pp. 1179-1199. http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9784431538974


Article

Matallana-Surget S, Douki T, Meador J, Cavicchioli R & Joux F (2010) Influence of growth temperature and starvation state on survival and DNA damage induction in the marine bacterium Sphingopyxis alaskensis exposed to UV radiation. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 100 (2), pp. 51-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2010.05.001


Article

Matallana-Surget S, Joux F, Lebaron P & Cavicchioli R (2007) Isolation and characterization of oligotrophic marine bacteria. Journal de la Societe de Biologie, 201 (1), pp. 41-50. http://www.biologie-journal.org/articles/jbio/abs/2007/01/contents/contents.html; https://doi.org/10.1051/jbio%3A2007005


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