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Email: M.G.Dumont@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 4369
Dr Marc Dumont is an Environmental Microbiologist with a wide range of research interests focused primarily on methane-oxidising bacteria but extending to the wider roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycles, ecology, environmental health, antibiotic resistance, and their potential application in sustainable agriculture. Originally from Canada and having studied microbiology at McGill University, he moved to the UK for his PhD at the University of Warwick, which focused on the diversity, mutagenesis, and recombinant expression of the soluble methane monooxygenase enzyme. He spent several years in Marburg, Germany, as a postdoc and then Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology before returning to the UK in 2015 to take up his current post at the University of Southampton. He has authored more than 70 research articles and book chapters and co-authored a book on stable isotope probing methods. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Terrestrial Microbiology, Frontiers in Soil Biology, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and the Journal of Eco-Environment and Health.