Melanie Auffan, PhD

Research Scientist

CEREGE

Contact Information

Office Address:

CEREGE
Europole de l'Arbois BP80
13545 Aix en Provence
FRANCE Cedex 04

+33442971543

Surface reactivity, Ecotoxicity, and Genotoxicity of Engineered Nanomaterials during their life cycle

A. Bour, Mouchet, F. , Cadarsi, S. , Silvestre, J. , Verneuil, L. , Baqué, D. , Chauvet, E. , Bonzom, J. - M. , Pagnout, C. , Clivot, H. , Fourquaux, I. , Tella, M. , Auffan, M. , Gauthier, L. , and Pinelli, E. , “Toxicity of CeO2 nanoparticles on a freshwater experimental trophic chain: A study in environmentally relevant conditions through the use of mesocosms”, Nanotoxicology, pp. 1 - 11, 2016.

K. Schirmer and Auffan, M. , “Nanotoxicology in the environment”, Environ. Sci.: Nano, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 561 - 563, 2015.

L. E. Barton, Auffan, M. , Olivi, L. , Bottero, J. - Y. , and Wiesner, M. R. , “Heteroaggregation, transformation and fate of CeO2 nanoparticles in wastewater treatment”, Environmental Pollution, vol. 203, pp. 122 - 129, 2015.

B. Collin, Auffan, M. , Johnson, A. C. , Kaur, I. , Keller, A. A. , Lazareva, A. , Lead, J. R. , Ma, X. , Merrifield, R. C. , Svendsen, C. , White, J. C. , and Unrine, J. M. , “Environmental release, fate and ecotoxicological effects of manufactured ceria nanomaterials”, Environ. Sci.: Nano, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 533 - 548, 2014.

M. Auffan, Tella, M. , Santaella, C. , Brousset, L. , Paillès, C. , Barakat, M. , Espinasse, B. , Artells, E. , Issartel, J. , Masion, A. , Rose, J. , Wiesner, M. R. , Achouak, W. , Thiéry, A. , and Bottero, J. - Y. , “An adaptable mesocosm platform for performing integrated assessments of nanomaterial risk in complex environmental systems”, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, 2014.

J. N. Meyer, Lord, C. A. , Yang, X. Y. , Turner, E. A. , Badireddy, A. R. , Marinakos, S. M. , Chilkoti, A. , Wiesner, M. R. , and Auffan, M. , “Intracellular uptake and associated toxicity of silver nanoparticles in Caenorhabditis elegans”, Aquatic Toxicology, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 140 - 150, 2010.

C. Santaella, Auffan, M. , Thiery, A. , and Bottero, J. - Y. , “Reproduire un écosystème pour évaluer l’impact des nanoparticules”, Biofutur, vol. 32, no. 347, 2013.

W. Liu, Rose, J. , Plantevin, S. , Auffan, M. , Bottero, J. - Y. , and Vidaud, C. , “Protein corona formation for nanomaterials and proteins of a similar size: hard or soft corona?”, Nanoscale, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1658-1668, 2013.

T. Leveque, Capowiez, Y. , Schreck, E. , Mazzia, C. , Auffan, M. , Foucault, Y. , Austruy, A. , and Dumat, C. , “Assessing ecotoxicity and uptake of metals and metalloids in relation to two different earthworm species (Eiseina hortensis and Lumbricus terrestris)”, Environmental Pollution, vol. 179, pp. 232 - 241, 2013.

B. Courbiere, Auffan, M. , Rollais, R. , Tassistro, V. , Bonnefoy, A. , Botta, A. , Rose, J. , Orsière, T. , and Perrin, J. , “Ultrastructural Interactions and Genotoxicity Assay of Cerium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Mouse Oocytes”, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 21613 - 21628, 2013.

M. Auffan, Bertin, D. , Chaurand, P. , Pailles, C. , Dominici, C. , Rose, J. , Bottero, J. - Y. , and Thiery, A. , “Role of molting on the biodistribution of CeO2 nanoparticles within Daphnia pulex”, Water Research, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 3921 - 3930, 2013.

E. Artells, Issartel, J. , Auffan, M. , Borschneck, D. , Thill, A. , Tella, M. , Brousset, L. , Rose, J. , Bottero, J. - Y. , and Thiéry, A. , “Exposure to Cerium Dioxide Nanoparticles Differently Affect Swimming Performance and Survival in Two Daphnid Species”, PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 8, p. e71260, 2013.

M. Auffan, Matson, C. W. , Rose, J. , Arnold, M. , Proux, O. , Fayard, B. , Liu, W. , Chaurand, P. , Wiesner, M. R. , Bottero, J. - Y. , and Di Giulio, R. T. , “Salinity-dependent silver nanoparticle uptake and transformation by Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) embryos”, Nanotoxicology, vol. 8, pp. 167-176, 2014.

A. P. Gondikas, Masion, A. , Auffan, M. , Lau, B. L. T. , and Hsu-Kim, H. , “Early-stage precipitation kinetics of zinc sulfide nanoclusters forming in the presence of cysteine”, Chemical Geology, vol. 329, pp. 10 - 17, 2012.

A. Thill, Maillet, P. , Guiose, B. , Spalla, O. , Belloni, L. , Chaurand, P. , Auffan, M. , Olivi, L. , and Rose, J. , “Physico-chemical Control over the Single- or Double-Wall Structure of Aluminogermanate Imogolite-like Nanotubes”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 134, no. 8, pp. 3780 - 3786, 2012.