Danielle Fortin Degrees: BSc (Laval), MSc (Laval), PhD (INRS-eau) Position: Professor - Environmental geomicrobiology Mailing address: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, 140 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON , Canada, K1N 6N5 Office: Marion 215; Lab: Marion 212, 216 Telephone: 613-562-5800; Office: ext. 6423; Fax: 613-562-5192 Email: dfortin@uottawa.ca Websites: Department of Earth Sciences Personal

Current Research Interests

•  Microbial diversity and function of anaerobic bacteria (iron- and sulfate-reducing bacteria) in mining environments

•  Role of iron- and sulfate-reducing bacteria in the methylation of Hg in mining and permanently cold environments

•  Characterization of biogenic iron oxides as potential sorbents of radionuclides

•  Effect of nutrients on bacterial adhesion to minerals

Selected Research Publications

Fortin, D. and Glasauer, S., 2006. Biominerals. Recorders of the past? In: Metals in life science, Vol. 4: Biomineralization. (A. Sigel, H. Sigel and R.K.O. Sigel, Eds.), Wiley. (in press in 2007)

Kulczycki, E., Fowle, D., Fortin, D. and Ferris, F.G., 2005. Sorption of Cadmium and Lead by Bacteria-Ferrihydrite Composites. Geomicrobiol. J., 22, 299-310.

Fortin, D and Praharaj, T., 2005. Role of microbial activity in Fe and S cycling in sub-oxic to anoxic sulfide-rich mine tailings: a mini-review.

Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences, 6, 39-42.

Fortin, D and Langley, S., 2005. Formation and occurrence of biogenic iron-rich minerals. Earth-Science Reviews, 72, 1-19.

Takahashi, Y., Chatellier, X., Hattori, K., Kato, K. and Fortin, D., 2005. Adsorption of rare earth elements onto bacterial cell walls and its implication for REE sorption onto natural microbial mats. Chemical Geology , 219, 53-67.

Praharaj, T. and Fortin, D., 2004. Indicators of bacterial sulfate reduction in acidic sulfide-rich mine tailings. Geomicrobiology J., 21, 457-467.

Chatellier, X and Fortin, D., 2004. Adsorption of ferrous ions onto Bacillus subtilis cells. Chemical Geology, 212, 209-228.

Daughney, C.D., Chatellier, X., Chan, A., Kenward, P., Fortin, D., Suttle , C.A. and Fowle, D., 2004. Adsorption and Precipitation of Iron from Seawater by a Marine Bacteriophage (PWH3a-P1). Marine Chemistry, 91, 101-115.

Fortin, D., 2004. What biogenic minerals tell us. Science 303, 1618-1619.

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