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Derek Lovley @microbeelectric
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Derek Lovley@microbeelectric
26 Sep 2023
Surprise 70th BD notif from scholargps.com/ for Career Contributions Microbial Ecology: #1 Quality; #2 Rank Microorganism: #3 Quality; #2 Rank Microbiology: #3 Quality; #4 Rank Life Sciences: #26 Quality; #50 Rank All Fields: #96 Quality; #239 Rank @UMassAmherst @UMass

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Fe(III) Oxide Reduction Bypassing Outer-Surface Cytochromes in a Marine Respiratory Anaerobe | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… Genetic analysis of the ins and outs of extracellular electron transfer in Desulfovibrio ferrophilus @ACSPublications
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Evolution of Geobacter for enhanced extracellular electron transfer over 17 years... frontiersin.org/journals/mic… How to live long and prosper growing on an electrode- genome remodeling enhances expression of nanowires @FrontMicrobiol @UMassAmherst @ISMETsociety @CEMAarhus
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"Fe(III) Oxide Reduction Bypassing Outer-Surface Cytochromes..." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… • EET via internally reduced shuttle despite expression of outer-surface cytochromes • Challenges a core assumption in omics studies predicting EET mechanisms @ISMETsociety @CEMAarhus
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Extracellular Electron Transfer: From Early Life to Modern Biogeochemistry and Applications authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzM1… Review of the growing field of electromicrobiology with over 600 references #electromicrobiology @ISMETsociety @CEMAarhus @ISME_microbes
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"Preemptive biofilm colonization blocks microbial metal corrosion" rdcu.be/fdDVp “Rust never sleeps”- but engineered E. coli biofilms stop even the most aggressive microbial corrosion of steel. Towards effective, sustainable corrosion mitigation
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Bioelectrochemical reduction of TiO2.... authors.elsevier.com/a/1mo-b… Titanium meets its match in Geobacter Microbe strips off the metal’s natural protective oxide coating during respiration, exposing the underlying metal to corrosion. #Electromicrobiology
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Electroactive Microbes Short-Circuit the Passive Film to Corrode Stainless Steel | Research spj.science.org/doi/10.34133… Microbial corrosion has an enormous economic impact. Learn how electroactive microbes can even extract electrons from “corrosion-resistant” stainless steel.
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Commentary: Electron transport across the cell envelope via multiheme c-type cytochromes in Geobacter sulfurreducens frontiersin.org/journals/che… Calling out the need to consider all the available data when reviewing extracellular electron transfer mechanisms @ISMETsociety
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Genetic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Microbial Electro-Extraction for Releasing Metals from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries authors.elsevier.com/a/1lxGf… Introducing Microbial Electro-Extraction (MEE): a sustainable electromicrobiological strategy 4 recycling spent lithium-ion batteries
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Constructing artificial neurons with functional parameters comprehensively matching biological values nature.com/articles/s41467-0… Artificial neurons fabricated with microbially produced protein nanowires closely emulate biological neurons @UMassAmherst

Constructing artificial neurons with functional parameters comprehensively matching biological...

Nature Communications - Artificial neurons typically have functional parameters that are mismatched with their biological counterpart. Here, the authors develop artificial neurons that emulate...

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Derek Lovley retweeted
The Dorval Lab@thedorvallab
21 Jul 2025
Check out the Dorval Lab's latest publication - 'M13 bacteriophage as a versatile platform for the creation of new materials via genetic engineering' in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology! Congratulations to Julia, Reefah, Beyza, and Daniel for their review on phage materials!
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Desulfovibrio ferrophilus corrosion mechanisms revealed! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lSkc… Gene deletion study demonstrates the importance of H2 as an electron shuttle, rather than direct electron uptake, overturning a 20-year misconception in the field of microbial corrosion. #Corrosion
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Long-range electron transport in self-assembled fibrils of peptides rich in aromatic residues pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… @_IamRamesh_ Excellent overview of this topic. #electrobiomaterials
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Sensing devices fabricated with Escherichia coli expressing genetically tunable nanowires incorporated into a water-stable polymer authors.elsevier.com/a/1knpe… Fabricating wearable sensors by mixing whole cells & their attached pilin-based nanowires into flexible polymer composite.
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mLife Journal@journal_mlife
5 Aug 2024
The worldwide economic cost of microbial corrosion is likely to exceed a trillion dollars a year. A new #mLife study by @microbeelectric et al. shows that Desulfovibrio vulgaris promotes corrosion by producing sulfide during sulfate reduction. doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.12133

Elucidating microbial iron corrosion mechanisms with a hydrogenase‐deficient strain of Desulfovib...

Sulfate-reducing microorganisms extensively contribute to the corrosion of ferrous metal infrastructure. There is substantial debate over their corrosion mechanisms. We investigated Fe0 corrosion...

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Microbial nanowires for sustainable electronics Open access: rdcu.be/dMOU1 Taking electromicrobiology ‘down to the wire’ •Types of microbial nanowires •The E. coli chassis for scale-up •Genetic tailoring for novel functions •Novel electronics-sensors, electricity from air, neuromorphic memory •Advantages over traditional nanowires •Future opportunities @UMassAmherst @UMassIALS @ISMETsociety @CEMAarhus @naturevbioeng
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Nature Reviews Bioengineering@natrevbioeng
5 Jul 2024
Microbial nanowires can be integrated in electronic devices for sensing, electricity generation and neuromorphic memory! In their Review, Derek Lovley et al discuss their functional re-engineering for sustainable electronics @microbeelectric go.nature.com/4eMv6pn
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Iron Corrosion is a Gas! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… • Desulfovibrio vulgaris is incapable of direct metal-to-microbe electron transfer even with supplementary energy & ferrous sulfide • H2 removal is not necessary for the enhanced corrosion observed in the presence of microbes

Elucidating microbial iron corrosion mechanisms with a hydrogenase‐deficient strain of Desulfovib...

Sulfate-reducing microorganisms extensively contribute to the corrosion of ferrous metal infrastructure. There is substantial debate over their corrosion mechanisms. We investigated Fe0 corrosion...

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Incorporating Microbial Pilin-Based Nanowires into a Water-Stable Electronic Polymer Composite biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Precision genetic tailoring of microbial nanowires incorporated into polymer composite for multiple functions, including highly sensitive electronic sensing of dissolved analytes.
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Chloride Enhances Corrosion Associated with Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria authors.elsevier.com/c/1j303… No genes, no gels, no high-end analytics, just basic culturing to provide the simple explanation for what was erroneously considered a paradigm shift in microbial corrosion mechanisms.
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