Optimisation de la procédure d'extraction d'ADN des sols pour caractériser la diversité microbienne tellurique par le pyroséquençage des gènes ribosomiques

Depuis plusieurs années, les communautés microbiennes du sol (bactériennes et fongiques) sont étudiées au travers de leur ADN. Le mode d’extraction de l’ADN du sol revêt donc une importance capitale pour décrire la biodiversité microbienne. A ce jour, de nombreuses procédures d’extraction d’ADN (commerciales ou non) des sols sont disponibles et utilisées. Il est cependant difficile de comparer les résultats d’études ayant utilisés différents protocoles d’extraction. L’emploi d’une méthode d’extraction standardisée est donc devenu indispensable pour comparer les résultats de différents laboratoires, comme la norme “ISO-11063: Soil quality – Method to directly extract DNA from soil” développé…

Fundaments of photoelectric readout of spin states in diamond

Abstract The chapter “Fundaments of photoelectric readout of spin states in diamond” deals with the detection of NV centre spins in diamond using the photoelectric detection of magnetic resonances (PDMR) method, introduced in a series of recent publications. It provides in particular insights into the physics of electronic transitions of the NV center, leading to the free carrier generation, and discusses methodologies how to implement the photocurrent detection principles in the dynamically evolving field of quantum technologies. Recent results on the single electron and the single nuclear spin qubits photoelectric readout are presented, along with a microwave-free NV magnetometry techniqu…

Les organismes du sol comme indicateurs du fonctionnement des sols en grandes cultures

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Airborne pathogenic bacteria risk related to a storm water retention basin

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Contribution to development of microbial bioindicators for assessing the impact of agricultural pratices on soil

Soil is the support of agricultural production. It performs many functions essential to the provision of ecosystem services necessary for the well-being of our societies. Soil physicochemical and biological properties have been altered by the development of intensive agriculture while it is a non-renewable resource, revealing the need to develop new management practices suitable for the sustainability of soil quality. This also marked the entry into the “Agroecology” era, which promotes the development of new agricultural systems optimizing services provided by biodiversity to reduce the use of inputs and energy use. To achieve this aim, the development of a range of indicators to assess th…

Contribution à l'élaboration de biodescripteurs microbiens pour l'évaluation de l'état biologique et la compréhension du fonctionnement du sol

Electrical readout microwave-free sensing with diamond

While nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) centers have been extensively investigated in the context of spin-based quantum technologies, the spin-state readout is conventionally performed optically, which may limit miniaturization and scalability. Here, we report photoelectric readout of ground-state cross-relaxation features, which serves as a method for measuring electron spin resonance spectra of nanoscale electronic environments and also for microwave-free sensing. As a proof of concept, by systematically tuning NV centers into resonance with the target electronic system, we extracted the spectra for the P1 electronic spin bath in diamond. Such detection may enable probing optically inactive defects …

On the Possibility of Miniature Diamond-Based Magnetometers Using Waveguide Geometries

Micromachines 9(6), 276 (2018). doi:10.3390/mi9060276