Publications by Rizlan Bernier-Latmani

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Uranium redox transition pathways in acetate-amended sediments

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Daniel Scott Alessi, Elena Suvorova Buffat, Malgorzata Alicja Stylo

Redox transitions of uranium [from U(VI) to U(IV)] in low-temperature sediments govern the mobility of uranium in the environment and the accumulation of uranium in ore bodies, and inform our understanding of Earth's geochemical history. The molecular-scal ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Speciation-dependent kinetics of uranium(VI) bioreduction

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Harish Veeramani

The kinetics of uranium(VI) reduction by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 was studied for varied pH and concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and calcium. These are key variables affecting U(VI) speciation in aqueous systems. For all conditio ...

Taylor & Francis2011

Role of Iron Sulfide Phases in the Stability of Noncrystalline Tetravalent Uranium in Sediments

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Luca Loreggian

Uranium (U) in situ bioremediation has been investigated as a cost-effective strategy to tackle U contamination in the subsurface. While uraninite was believed to be the only product of bioreduction, numerous studies have revealed that noncrystalline U(IV) ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

In Situ Biostimulation of Cr(VI) Reduction in a Fast-Flowing Oxic Aquifer

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Daniel Scott Alessi

Hexavalent chromium is among the most common and hazardous inorganic contaminants in soils and groundwater. A promising in situ bioremediation approach is the delivery of electron donors to stimulate microbially mediated Cr(VI) reduction, producing relativ ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Variability in DPA and calcium content in the spores of Clostridium species

Zuzana Chromiková, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Barbora Bártová, Cornelia List, Jan Jamroskovic

Spores of a number of clostridia' species, and their resistance to thermal treatment is a major concern for the food industry. Spore resistance to wet heat is related to the level of spore hydration, which is inversely correlated with the content of calciu ...

Frontiers Media SA2016

Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations

Andrea Rinaldo, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Paolo Benettin, Manon Frutschi, Mitra Asadollahi, Simiao Wang, Filippo Miele

Reduction-oxidation cycles measured through soil redox potential (Eh) are associated with dynamic soil microbial activity. Understanding changes in the composition of, and resource use by, soil microbial communities requires Eh predictability under shiftin ...

American Geophysical Union2023

Comparative dissolution kinetics of biogenic and chemogenic uraninite under oxidizing conditions in the presence of carbonate

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Harish Veeramani, Jonathan Sharp

The long-term stability of biogenic uraninite with respect to oxidative dissolution is pivotal to the success of in situ bioreduction strategies for the subsurface remediation of uranium legacies. Batch and flow-through dissolution experiments were conduct ...

Elsevier2009

Biogeochemical controls on the product of microbial U(VI) reduction

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Daniel Scott Alessi, Malgorzata Alicja Stylo, Paul Pao-Yun Shao

Biologically mediated immobilization of radio-nuclides in the subsurface is a promising strategy for the remediation of uranium-contaminated sites. During this process, soluble U(VI) is reduced by indigenous microorganisms to sparingly soluble U(TV). The c ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Rapid mobilization of noncrystalline U(IV) coupled with FeS oxidation

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Malgorzata Alicja Stylo

The reactivity of disordered, noncrystalline U(IV) species remains poorly characterized despite their prevalence in biostimulated sediments. Because of the lack of crystalline structure, noncrystalline U(IV) may be susceptible to oxidative mobilization und ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Reconstructing a hydrogen-driven microbial metabolic network in Opalinus Clay rock

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Alexandre Bagnoud

The Opalinus Clay formation will host geological nuclear waste repositories in Switzerland. It is expected that gas pressure will build-up due to hydrogen production from steel corrosion, jeopardizing the integrity of the engineered barriers. In an in situ ...

Nature Research2016

Microbial communities associated with uranium in-situ recovery mining process are related to acid mine drainage assemblages

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Pierre Rossi, Thomas Coral

A large fraction (47%) of the world's uranium is mined by a technique called “In Situ Recovery” (ISR). This mining technique involves the injection of a leaching fluid (acidic or alkaline) into a uranium-bearing aquifer and the pumping of the resulting sol ...

2018

H2-fuelled microbial metabolism in Opalinus Clay

Carla Perez Mon, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Luca Loreggian, Niels Burzan, Aislinn Ann Boylan

In Switzerland, the Opalinus Clay formation is considered the most likely host rock for a deep geological repository for nuclear waste. In deep geological repositories, H2 is expected to be the most abundant gas formed from the degradation of waste and fro ...

2019

Persistence of the isotopic signature of pentavalent uranium in magnetite

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Barbora Bártová, Zezhen Pan

Uranium isotopic signatures can be harnessed to monitor the reductive remediation of subsurface contamination or to reconstruct paleo-redox environments. However, the mechanistic underpinnings of the isotope fractionation associated with U reduction remain ...

2022

Dataset of scientific article "Variability in Arsenic Methylation Efficiency across Aerobic and Anaerobic Microorganisms"

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Karen Elda Viacava Romo

Dataset for journal paper entitled "Variability in Arsenic Methylation Efficiency across Aerobic and Anaerobic Microorganisms" (DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03908). Partial publication's abstract: "Microbially-mediated methylation of arsenic (As ...

Zenodo2023

Non-uraninite products of microbial U(VI) reduction

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Elena Suvorova Buffat, Harish Veeramani, Jonathan Sharp, Elena Cristina Dalla Vecchia

A promising remediation approach to mitigate subsurface uranium contamination is the stimulation of indigenous bacteria to reduce mobile U(VI) to sparingly soluble U(IV). The product of microbial uranium reduction is often reported as the mineral uraninite ...

2010

Combined scanning transmission X-ray and electron microscopy for the characterization of bacterial endospores

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Elena Suvorova Buffat, Paul Pao-Yun Shao, Jan Jamroskovic

Endospores (also referred to as bacterial spores) are bacterial structures formed by several bacterial species of the phylum Firmicutes. Spores form as a response to environmental stress. These structures exhibit remarkable resistance to harsh environmenta ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Bile acid 7α-dehydroxylating bacteria accelerate injury-induced mucosal healing in the colon

Lucie Plantade, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Kristina Schoonjans, Alessia Perino, Hadrien Charles Edouard Demagny, Eduard Vico Oton, Antoine Jalil, Colin Volet, Jéromine Imbach

Host-microbiome communication is frequently perturbed in gut pathologies due to microbiome dysbiosis, leading to altered production of bacterial metabolites. Among these, 7 alpha-dehydroxylated bile acids are notably diminished in inflammatory bowel diseas ...

SPRINGERNATURE2025

Growth and persistence of an aerobic microbial community in Wyoming bentonite MX-80 despite anoxic in-situ conditions

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Manon Frutschi, Niels Burzan

Microbial activity has the potential to enhance the corrosion of high-level radioactive waste disposal canisters, which, in the proposed Swiss deep geological repository, will be embedded in bentonite and placed in the Opalinus Clay rock formation (OPA). T ...

Frontiers Media SA2022

Fabric characteristics and mechanical response to bio-improved sand to various treatment conditions

Lyesse Laloui, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Dimitrios Terzis

Investigating the enhanced mechanical response of treated soils through microbially induced calcite precipitation requires extensive understanding of the pore structure. Depending on the applied treatment conditions, the resulted material exhibits distinct ...

Ice Publishing2016

Microbial hydrogen sinks in the sand-bentonite backfill material for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Manon Frutschi, Nicolas Louis Maurice Jacquemin, Simiao Wang, Niels Burzan, Aislinn Ann Boylan, Camille Aude Rolland

The activity of subsurface microorganisms can be harnessed for engineering projects. For instance, the Swiss radioactive waste repository design can take advantage of indigenous microorganisms to tackle the issue of a hydrogen gas (H2) phase pressure build ...

Frontiers Media SA2024