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Elie LE QUEMENER
Elie Le Quemener
LE QUEMENER Elie
Elie.Le-Quemener@inrae.fr
04 68 42 51 87
50% DIIEM - 50% SAMI
Research scientist
Dpt. MICA

Also known as:
Elie DESMOND
Elie DESMOND-LE QUEMENER

Activities

Research axis: SAMI

Modeling biotic interactions in microbial ecosystems

Keywords:

  • Modeling microbial ecosystems in environmental bioprocesses
  • Microbial thermodynamics
  • Interspecies electron transfer
  • Microbial electrochemical systems for environmental biorefinery
  • Microbial ecology, diversity and evolution

Projects

  • LeAD (2025-2029): Leveraging Anaerobic Digestion through environmental stresses. Europe MSCA Doctoral Network.
  • ElectoMIC (2023-2028): Electrochemically-assisted MICrobial community metabolic network optimization for biorefinery of organic waste. PEPR B-BEST.
  • MODOSAO (2023-2026): Coupling genome-based and energy-based approaches of syntrophic microbial interactions for the modelling of high-rate anaerobic digestion. INRAE PhD project.

Professional and research experience

  • Invited scholar at Arizona State University, Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology (Arizona State University), Tempe, USA (2019).
  • Research scientist at INRAE since 2016
  • Post-doctoral fellow at IRSTEA, Antony (2010-2016)
  • PhD at the Institut Pasteur, BMGE laboratory, Paris (2006-2009)
  • Master 2 " physics-biology interface", Paris VII et XI (2005-2006)
  • École normale supérieure de Lyon (2002-2006)

Recent publications

https://cv.hal.science/elie-desmond-lequemener
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1675-2744
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elie-Desmond-Le-Quemener

  • Pérez-Bernal M. F., Berthomieu R., Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Bernet N., Trably E. (2024). Influence of fumarate on interspecies electron transfer and the metabolic shift induced in Clostridium pasteurianum by Geobacter sulfurreducens. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 135 (5), lxae122, https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jambio/lxae122
  • Lanfranchi A., Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Magdalena J., Cavinato C., Trably E. (2024). Conversion of wine lees and waste activated sludge into caproate and heptanoate: Thermodynamic and microbiological insights. Bioresource Technology, 131126, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2024.131126
  • Rous A., Santa-Catalina G., Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Trably E., Bernet N. (2024). Comparison of enrichment methods for efficient nitrogen fixation on a biocathode. Peer Community Journal, 4, e12, https://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.365
  • Katipoglu-Yazan T., Dev S., Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Bouchez T. (2023). Data on the influence of temperature on the growth of Escherichia coli in a minimal medium containing glucose as the sole carbon source for the joint computation of growth yields and rates at each temperature from 27 to 45°C. Data in Brief, 48, 109037, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109037
  • Tian J.-H., Lacroix R., Yaqoob A. A., Bureau C., Midoux C., Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Bouchez T. (2023). Study of a Pilot Scale Microbial Electrosynthesis Reactor for Organic Waste Biorefinery. Energies, 16 (2), 591, https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16020591
  • Thomas C., Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Gribaldo S., Borrel G. (2022). Factors shaping the abundance and diversity of the gut archaeome across the animal kingdom. Nature Communications, 13 (1), 3358, https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31038-4
  • Berthomieu R., Pérez-Bernal M. F., Santa-Catalina G., Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Bernet N., Trably E. (2022). Mechanisms underlying Clostridium pasteurianum’s metabolic shift when grown with Geobacter sulfurreducens. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 106 (2), 865-876, https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-021-11736-7
  • Haidar I., Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Barbot J.-P., Harmand J., Rapaport A. (2022). Modelling and optimal control of an electro-fermentation process within a batch culture. Processes, 10 (3), https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr10030535
  • Desmond-Le Quéméner E., Moscoviz R., Bernet N., Marcus A. (2021). Modeling of interspecies electron transfer in anaerobic microbial communities. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 67, 49-57, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2020.12.019
  • Ugalde-Salas P., Ramírez C. H., Harmand J., Desmond-Le Quéméner E. (2021). Microbial Interactions as Drivers of a Nitrification Process in a Chemostat. Bioengineering, 8 (3), 31, https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering8030031
  • Ouazaite H., Milferstedt K., Hamelin J., Desmond‐Le Quéméner E. (2021). Mapping the biological activities of filamentous oxygenic photogranules. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 118 (2), 601-611, https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bit.27585