Marie Thérèse Giudici-Orticoni
Bioenergetics and Protein Engineering Laboratory, Mediterranean Institute of Microbiology, Marseille, France
Biography
Marie-Thérèse Giudici-Orticoni is director of the Laboratory of Bioenergetics and Protein Engineering, director of the Mediterranean Institute of Microbiology (350 people), director of the Institute of Microbiology, Bioenergy and Biotechnology of Aix-Marseille University (10 laboratories, 14 platforms). Her group has characterized the main metabolic chains of micro-organisms, and now studying their dynamics and interactions under different conditions. She has initiated an innovative axis of ecological engineering, which consists in the microbial study of bacterial consortia involved in bioH2 production. The objective is to establish the parameters governing the metabolic networks in view of biotechnological applications. She is author of 98 publications in refereed journals, scientific coordinator for national and international programs.