Meet the Group

Christina Hazard
Group Leader
christina.hazard@univ-lyon1.fr

Graeme Nicol
Group Leader
graeme.nicol@cnrs.fr

Eleftheria Bachtsevani
Postdoc
eleftheria.bachtsevani@univ-lyon1.fr
My research interest is in assessing the impact of agrochemicals and biological nitrification inhibitors on nitrifying bacteria and archaea.

Arianna Farolfi
PhD student
arianna.farolfi@univ-lyon1.fr
I am investigating the interactions between methanotrophs and their viruses in soils and the impact on carbon cycling.

Mia Sungeun Lee
Postdoc
sungeun.lee@univ-lyon1.fr
My research focuses on utilizing bioinformatic approaches for uncovering virus – host interactions in soil.
Former Members

Yuanyuan Zhang
Graduated PhD student
She worked on investigating the diversity and distribution of soil RNA viruses and in determining the impact of RNA virus-host interactions on major biogeochemical cycles within soil ecosystems.

Huaiyu Wang
Graduated PhD student
He worked on understanding the coevolution and adaptation of prokaryotes and viruses in soil.

Rakshita Govind
Former Postdoc
She worked on the isolation of ammonia oxidizing bacteria in soil.
Manon Longepierre
Zhongyi Cheng
Ella Sieradzki
Felena Andrianjakarivony
Séréna Albert
Rouyu Hu