University of Southern Denmark
I’m excited to announce that Sebastian Bak Bjørnskov has joined my team as a 4+4 PhD student. Sebastian will be diving into research on the mechanisms of interspecies interactions facilitated by geoconductors. With a keen interest in genetics, he’ll be utilizing techniques like gene deletions to uncover the mechanistic details driving these fascinating processes. Sebastian has already been successful in
In early August, Adrienn Groza successfully completed her six-month Erasmus MSc thesis internship in my lab at SDU. Since then, she has returned to the Netherlands to begin an exciting new chapter: pursuing a PhD in environmental microbiology. During her time in the lab, Adrienn explored the effects of bioelectrochemical stimulation on digestate communities (provided by Nature Energy) and their
Karina and Satoshi sampled sediments from Greenland. We are interested in discovering what happens when the Arctic melts, giving way to glacier melt debris flowing in coastal waters and carrying minerals that may influence greenhouse gas emissions. Since this is unexplored, we hope to bring firsthand knowledge about what may be affecting methane emissions and the microbial communities involved in
Amelia gave an invited talk about “Life of Geobacter as a syntroph in artificial and environmental consortia with methanogens” at the International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics of the Bioelectrochemical Society at Alcalá University. The talk was in a session celebrating the 30th anniversary since the isolation of Geobacter sulfurreducens. Photo credit: Amelia-Elena Rotaru
On January 26th, 2024, Amelia delivered a presentation at the DANEMO Symposium (Dynamics and Modeling of Biological Systems). The primary goal of the symposium was to promote the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in Denmark and showcase the latest EMBL program, “Molecules to Ecosystems,” for the 2022-2026 period. The symposium was organized to