Enjoying the little (microbial) things "Out of the mud and into the clean room" Electromicrobiology. Bioenergy. Sustainable Electronics. Corrosion.
University of Massachusetts
Joined December 2014
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Fe(III) oxide respiration by a Desulfovibrio species lacking canonical outer-membrane electron transfer systems | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
No outer-surface cytochromes?
No conductive pili?
No problem!
Implications for molecular ecology analysis of Fe(III) reduction.
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Iterative engineering of heterologous conductive nanowire enhances bid… sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Shewanella further optimized for current generation by iteratively improving heterologous expression of Geobacter metallireducens pilin assembly into nanowires.
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Postdoctoral Fellow – Protein Nanowire Electronics for Wearable Sensors nature.com/naturecareers/job…
Growth of Desulfovibrio strain JY on stainless steel reveals a previously unrecognized sulfate-reducer corrosion mechanism
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Sulfate reducers don’t only corrode iron by producing sulfide.
Introducing elecrobiocorrosion by an electroactive sulfate reducer.
Single-cell adhesion force predicts electrobiocorrosion rates of stainless steel
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Let the force be with Shewanella! Genetically manipulating adhesive protein expression modifies corrosion rates.
#electromicrobiology #electrobiocorrosion
Fe(III) Oxide Reduction Bypassing Outer-Surface Cytochromes in a Marine Respiratory Anaerobe | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Genetic analysis of the ins and outs of extracellular electron transfer in Desulfovibrio ferrophilus
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Evolution of Geobacter for enhanced extracellular electron transfer over 17 years...
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How to live long and prosper growing on an electrode- genome remodeling enhances expression of nanowires
@FrontMicrobiol @UMassAmherst @ISMETsociety @CEMAarhus
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"Fe(III) Oxide Reduction Bypassing Outer-Surface Cytochromes..."
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• EET via internally reduced shuttle despite expression of outer-surface cytochromes
• Challenges a core assumption in omics studies predicting EET mechanisms
@ISMETsociety @CEMAarhus
Extracellular Electron Transfer: From Early Life to Modern Biogeochemistry and Applications
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Review of the growing field of electromicrobiology with over 600 references
#electromicrobiology
@ISMETsociety @CEMAarhus @ISME_microbes
"Preemptive biofilm colonization blocks microbial metal corrosion"
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“Rust never sleeps”- but engineered E. coli biofilms stop even the most aggressive microbial corrosion of steel.
Towards effective, sustainable corrosion mitigation
Bioelectrochemical reduction of TiO2....
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Titanium meets its match in Geobacter
Microbe strips off the metal’s natural protective oxide coating during respiration, exposing the underlying metal to corrosion.
#Electromicrobiology
Electroactive Microbes Short-Circuit the Passive Film to Corrode Stainless Steel | Research spj.science.org/doi/10.34133…
Microbial corrosion has an enormous economic impact.
Learn how electroactive microbes can even extract electrons from “corrosion-resistant” stainless steel.
Commentary: Electron transport across the cell envelope via multiheme c-type cytochromes in Geobacter sulfurreducens
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Calling out the need to consider all the available data when reviewing extracellular electron transfer mechanisms
@ISMETsociety
Genetic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Microbial Electro-Extraction for Releasing Metals from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Introducing Microbial Electro-Extraction (MEE): a sustainable electromicrobiological strategy 4 recycling spent lithium-ion batteries
Constructing artificial neurons with functional parameters comprehensively matching biological values
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Artificial neurons fabricated with microbially produced protein nanowires closely emulate biological neurons
@UMassAmherst
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Check out the Dorval Lab's latest publication - 'M13 bacteriophage as a versatile platform for the creation of new materials via genetic engineering' in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology!
Congratulations to Julia, Reefah, Beyza, and Daniel for their review on phage materials!
Desulfovibrio ferrophilus corrosion mechanisms revealed!
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Gene deletion study demonstrates the importance of H2 as an electron shuttle, rather than direct electron uptake, overturning a 20-year misconception in the field of microbial corrosion.
#Corrosion
Long-range electron transport in self-assembled fibrils of peptides rich in aromatic residues pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
@_IamRamesh_
Excellent overview of this topic.
#electrobiomaterials
Sensing devices fabricated with Escherichia coli expressing genetically tunable nanowires incorporated into a water-stable polymer
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Fabricating wearable sensors by mixing whole cells & their attached pilin-based nanowires into flexible polymer composite.
Derek Lovley retweeted
The worldwide economic cost of microbial corrosion is likely to exceed a trillion dollars a year. A new #mLife study by @microbeelectric et al. shows that Desulfovibrio vulgaris promotes corrosion by producing sulfide during sulfate reduction. doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.12133
