National Speaker: Prof Léa Cabrol

 We are excited to introduce Dr. Léa Cabrol as one of our national speakers at the “Microbial Frontiers: Ecology in Extreme Environments” Symposium!

Dr. Léa Cabrol is a researcher at the University of Chile and the representative in Chile for the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development. As part of the Millennium Institute for Biodiversity of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems (BASE), her research focuses on microbial communities that produce and consume methane, a key greenhouse gas. Her studies are crucial for understanding methane emissions in polar regions, such as Antarctica, which are affected by global warming.

Dr. Cabrol’s current research specifically focuses on methane-producing and methane-consuming microbial communities, which play a key role in atmospheric emissions of this potent greenhouse gas, especially in high-latitude regions like the Antarctic continent that are experiencing the impacts of climate change.