Rotaru Lab

University of Southern Denmark

By - Amelia Rotaru

Paola’s first preprint

Ever wondered who’s corroding those chemical weapons oozing mustard gas in the Baltic sea, wonder no more: “Baltic #Methanosarcina and #Clostridium compete for electrons from metallic iron”. Check Paola’s #firstpreprint #bioRxiv #MIC #ironcorrosion funded by the Danish Research Council (Sapere Aude program): Palacios et al., 2018 BiRxiv 530386        

By - Amelia Rotaru

Tenure

I have been granted tenure after three years as Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. Today, 1st of November 2018, is my first day in the capacity of tenured Associate Professor. I am excited about my new role and curious to learn and develop further.

By - Amelia Rotaru

Preprint 1st of Nov 2018: Extracellular electron uptake by two Methanosarcina species

My first Ph.D. student Mon Oo Yee just preprinted her first paper: Extracellular electron uptake by two Methanosarcina species. Mon discovered that although two different Methanosarcina could do DIET, they differed in their capability to do electromethanogenesis at a fixed cathode potential. We are excited to hear how the scientific community receives her work.

By - Amelia Rotaru

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

By - Amelia Rotaru

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!