Rotaru Lab

University of Southern Denmark

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New preprint from our lab

In incubations originated from the sediments of a ferruginous, early Earth analogue lake, we were surprised to discover that the interspecies association between Youngiibacter and Methanothrix was strictly dependent on conductive particles. Here is a link to our paper. The implication of this study is that mineral-syntrophy could be the relic of ancestral associations between protocells splitting metabolic tasks, prior to the

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Xiaochen joined our lab

Xiaochen Yang, is our new colleague for the next two months. Xiaochen has a PhD from the Danish Technological University and will do his internship on electrochemical systems and fluorescence microscopy techniques. Welcome to the lab, Xiaochen!

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New paper on odd partnerships fused by conductive particles and workshop in Wageningen

Finally, great to see our BioRxiv paper just published by mBio. Also, SDU Nat’s press officer (Birgitte Svennevig) published a EurekaAlert and a press release on SDU’s website calling attention to our work. This work is a contribution to a project funded by the Danish Research Council in 2013. Wageningen: a sneak peak at conductive particle-mediated syntrophy Just before the paper was released

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Outreach: Methanogens battle against radioactive contamination

Morten Busch wrote a great outreach article about methanogens battling radionuclide contamination, in which our recent publication from Microbial Ecology has been featured. Cite: Busch M. 2018. Extreme microbes battle against radioactive contamination. ScienceNews.dk (Novo Nordisk Foundation) Holmes, D.E., Orelana, R., Giloteaux, L., Wang,  L.-Y., Shrestha, P., Williams, K., Lovley, D.R., Rotaru, A.-E., 2018. Potential for Methanosarcina to Contribute to Uranium Reduction during

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New team member

Daniel Jensen from Aarhus University will do a masters in our lab. The Masters will be under my supervision and that of Lars Ottosen. At SDU, Daniel will work on electrosynthesis and production of valuable chemicals from renewable resources. Daniel has a BSc from the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, where he studied motility in cable bacteria. A year

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