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Science Perspective

Post author By Amelia Rotaru
Post date February 12, 2016

Amelia and Bo wrote a perspective for Science about methane oxidizing bacteria that are finally decoupled from their syntrophic partners.

You can find the perspective here. The perspective is with reference to an article in Science by Scheller et al. In this article, the authors managed to decouple ANME-type 2 from their sulfate reducing partners with the help of electron acceptors like chelated – Fe III. The paper can be found here.

Also, scientists are tweeting about this.

Perspective by @AmeliaRotaru on aom anme w/o sulfate: #anaerobic #microbiology #methane https://t.co/Y5hoMaZxfD pic.twitter.com/x5rkrNjgSE

— Mike Jetten🟥 (@msmjetten) February 11, 2016

Tags Direct interspecies electron transfer, methane

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New team member

Post author By Amelia Rotaru
Post date January 29, 2016

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.

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Oldenburg invited talk

Post author By Amelia Rotaru
Post date January 29, 2016

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.

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Electric interactions meet thermodynamics

Post author By Amelia Rotaru
Post date January 9, 2016

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.

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Talking about current and microbes while in Sydney

Post author By Amelia Rotaru
Post date January 9, 2016

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 to Australia, and besides the science, I cannot wait to see kangaroos and parrots in their favorite world.