Categories
News

ASM Microbe 2016

Amelia and Paola went to ASM Microbe 2016 in Boston Massachusetts.

Amelia gave a talk in the session “Microbial electric grids: electromicrobiology, fuel cells, nanowires and cable bacteria.”. The talk was entitled: “Methanogens hungry for electrons” and you can find the abstract here.

Tweeps twitted during the talk, and even photos were snapped.

Screen Shot 2016-06-30 at 7.02.07 AM

 

After the conference Amelia also visited Amherst – the Lovley lab. It’s been great meeting old and new friends and collaborators from the US.

Paola presented a poster from her master studies. She had lots of people visiting her during the poster hours.

DSC09809

Overall we had a great time.

Categories
News People

New employment

Oona Snoeyebos West (June 2016 – ) has joined our team as the second postdoc on the iron corrosion project. Oona has a double PhD in Organismic Evolutionary Biology and Geosciences from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (received in 1998), and has worked as postdoc in different labs at UMass.

Welcome Oona!

You can find Oona’s papers here.

 

Categories
News

Fyens Stiftstidende Prize

On the 9th of May 2016, Amelia received a prize from the Fyens Stiftstidende. Very honored being selected for this prize. Every year, two scientists from the island of Fyn receive this prize, which is popularly known as the Fyn Noble Prize.

Categories
News

Elite Forsk awards 2016

Sapere Award ceremony


During the Elite Forsk ceremony, Amelia was honored with the Sapere Aude Research Leader Award. The ceremony took place in a beautiful setting, at the Glyptotek in Copenhagen.

Categories
News

Electrogas meeting

On the 26th of February, Mon, Amelia and Bo met with the Electrogas consortium at the Engineering School, Aarhus University.  Every member of the consortium discussed their most recent experiments, and got input from all other members and industry partners.