Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget

Lecturer

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

Contact details

Email sabine.matallanasurget@stir.ac.uk
Telephone+44 (0)1786 467774

ORCID 0000-0002-6023-3215

About me

CAREER 2015- present: Lecturer in Applied Biological Sciences. School of Natural Sciences, Dept. 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). Observatoire d’Océanographie Biologique de Banyuls. UPMC

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

During the past 10 years, my career and projects have focused on the physiological and molecular responses of model microorganisms to damaging radiation, using truly state of the art proteomics approaches. My expertise centres on microbial ecology and photobiology, with strong skills in molecular biology and proteomics.

2009 (France / Australia) PhD Graduation. Double diploma delivered by the UPMC (Paris, France) and the UNSW (Sydney, Australia). Thesis title: "Physiological and molecular responses of the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingopyxis alaskensis RB2256 to visible light and ultraviolet radiation". 2009- 2010 (ESA, Belgium) and 2010-2015 (CNRS, France) 2 Postdoctoral Research Positions, working for 2 European Research Projects. The foundations and break through science and technology I learned during my PhD at UNSW has clearly translated through my studies as postdoctoral scientist for the European Space Agency (Spatial Microbiology) working on the MeLISSA project (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) doing quantitative proteomics on Arthrospira platensis and after as a Research Fellow (CNRS) on the European project (FP7) MAMBA (Marine Metagenomics for new Biotechnological Applications) working on newly characterised UV-resistant marine bacteria. I was appointed to a lecturer position at the University of Stirling in January 2015, where I am currently developing my research group on marine microbial ecology.

Projects

MicMAC: Microbiology via Modelling and Acoustics
PI: Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget
Funded by: Scottish Crucible
15/09/2015–30/11/2016

Microbiology via Acoustics: Bacterial Behaviour in Complex Microbial Communities (BBC MiC)
PI: Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01/01/2016–29/07/2016

Outputs

Article

Bacterial survival under extreme UV radiation: A comparative proteomics study of Rhodobacter sp., isolated from high altitude wetlands in Chile

Perez VA, Hengst MB, Kurte L, Dorador C, Jeffrey WH, Wattiez R, Molina V & Matallana-Surget S (2017)
Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, Art. No.: 1173.

Article

Proteome-wide analysis and diel proteomic profiling in the cyanobacterium Arthrospira platensis PCC 8005

Matallana-Surget S, Derock J, Baptiste L, Badri H, Deschoenmaeker F & Wattiez R (2014)
PLoS ONE, 9 (6), Art. No.: e99076.

Article

Impact of Solar Radiation on Gene Expression in Bacteria

Matallana-Surget S & Wattiez R (2013)
Proteomes, 1 (2), pp. 70-86.

Article

Shotgun redox proteomics: identification and quantitation of carbonylated proteins in the UVB resistant marine bacterium, Photobacterium angustum S14

Matallana-Surget S, Cavicchioli R, Fauconnier C, Wattiez R, Baptiste L, Joux F, Raftery M & Lebaron P (2013)
PLoS ONE, 8 (7), Art. No.: e68112.

Article

Proteome analysis of the UVB-resistant marine bacterium Photobacterium angustum S14

Matallana-Surget S, Joux F, Wattiez R & Lebaron P (2012)
PLoS ONE, 7 (8), Art. No.: e42299.

Book Chapter

Analysis of Isotopic Labelling Vs. Label-Free Approaches for Quantitative Proteomics.

Baptiste L, Houyoux N, Matallana-Surget S & Wattiez R (2012) Analysis of Isotopic Labelling Vs. Label-Free Approaches for Quantitative Proteomics.. In: Integrative Proteomics, Croatia: InTech, pp. 327-346.

Book Chapter

Physiology of marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacteria

Williams T, Joux F, Lauro F, Matallana-Surget S & Cavicchioli R (2011) Physiology of marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacteria. In: Horikoshi K, Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (ed.). Extremophiles Handbook, Japan: Springer, pp. 1179-1199.

Article

Influence of growth temperature and starvation state on survival and DNA damage induction in the marine bacterium Sphingopyxis alaskensis exposed to UV radiation

Matallana-Surget S, Douki T, Meador J, Cavicchioli R & Joux F (2010)
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 100 (2), pp. 51-56.

Article

Shotgun proteomics: concept, key points and data mining (Editorial)

Matallana-Surget S, Baptiste L & Wattiez R (2010)
Expert Review of Proteomics, 7 (1), pp. 5-7.

Article

The response of the marine bacterium Sphingopyxis alaskensis to solar radiation assessed by quantitative proteomics

Matallana-Surget S, Joux F, Raftery M & Cavicchioli R (2009)
Environmental Microbiology, 11 (10), pp. 2660-2675.

Article

Remarkable resistance to UVB of the marine bacterium Photobacterium angsutum explained by an unexpected role of photolyase

Matallana-Surget S, Douki T, Cavicchioli R & Joux F (2009)
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 8 (9), pp. 1313-1320.

Article

Physiological alteration of the marine bacterium Vibrio angustum S14 exposed to simulated sunlight during growth

Abboudi M, Matallana-Surget S, Rontani J, Sempéré R & Joux F (2008)
Current Microbiology, 57 (5), pp. 412-417.

Article

Effect of the GC content of DNA on the distribution of UVB-induced bipyrimidine photoproducts

Matallana-Surget S, Meador J, Joux F & Douki T (2008)
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 7 (7), pp. 794-801.

Article

Isolation and characterization of oligotrophic marine bacteria

Matallana-Surget S, Joux F, Lebaron P & Cavicchioli R (2007)
Journal de la Societe de Biologie, 201 (1), pp. 41-50.