Rotaru Lab

University of Southern Denmark

By - Amelia Rotaru

New team member

On March 1st, Paola Andrea Palacios Jaramillo, will join our team. Paola will isolate methanogens which corrode iron, and will investigate how we can prevent corrosion induced by these organisms. Paola finished her masters in Microbiology last September, at Aix-Marseille University. We are all very excited to meet and work with Paola.  

By - Amelia Rotaru

Oldenburg invited talk

Amelia: Wednesday the 27th January,  I traveled to Oldenburg for an invited seminar entitled “A new DIET for methanogens”. It’s been dreamlike passing through Bremen, 13 years after I’ve started there as microbiologist.  

By - Amelia Rotaru

Electric interactions meet thermodynamics

Amelia: I will be in New Castle on the 31st of March, where I will be giving an invited lecture about electric interspecies interactions for Master students at the School of Civil Engineering and Geoscience at New Castle University. Afterwards, I’m really enthusiastic to finally meet and converse about the thermodynamics of direct electron transfer with brilliant scientists at New Castle University.  

By - Amelia Rotaru

Talking about current and microbes while in Sydney

Amelia: On 16th of March, I will be in sunny Sydney, Australia where I’ve been invited to talk about electric interspecies interactions with methanogens and how they could change the biotechnology of the future. My talk is part of the 5th Annual JAMS Symposium. Also, I will be visiting collaborators at the University of New South Wales. Very excited about my first visit

By - Amelia Rotaru

Electrogas consortium meeting

On 26th of February, Mon and Amelia will meet the Electrogas consortium at Aarhus University. We are going to discuss progress with our work packages. The European Union, including Denmark, plan to become fossil fuel free by 2050, therefore  renewable resources like biogas and wind-turbine-generated electricity come in handy in order to produce the chemicals of the future while storing the excess electricity.