Click over to Advanced Materials and Current Opinion in Biotechnology, where we just published two reviews! The review in Advanced Materials focuses on nanostructures that transport ions and electrons across cellular membranes, while the Current Opinion review discusses biometallurgy.

Three cheers each for our graduating seniors, Annie Li and Dimitri Umpriani, for being nominated for Senior Honors in their majors, Molecular & Cellular Biology and Chemical Biology!

Congratulations on taking the plunge and accepting admission to graduate school in Notre Dame’s Department of Biochemistry!

Congratulations, Michaela on accepting an Assistant Professorship at Michigan State University!

We seek a new member to join our multi-disciplinary team of synthetic biologists and geochemists working to explore whether thermophilic bacteria can be engineered to selectively capture dilute, valuable target metals from waste water. Check out this short position description and email Caroline if you’re interested.

Congratulations to Behzad on his paper in ACS Nano!!

Congratulations go out to our collaborators and users in Alex Noy’s group – Jia Geng, Ramya Tunuguntla, and Ken Kim – for their trio of papers that just came out in Nature, Nano Letters, and Advanced Materials!

Congrats to Michaela and Tom on their paper just published in ChemElectroChem!

“The Mtr pathway of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 couples substrate utilization to current production in Escherichia coli.”

WoooHoo!!! We just got a grant to investigate whether engineered thermophilic microbes can be used to selectively bind strategic minerals.

Thanks to the EERE Low Temperature Geothermal Program at DoE, Karen Yamamoto and Mack Kennedy, and our collaborators, Dr. Brian Viani and Dr. Jonathan Ajo-Franklin!

Congratulations to Annie Li (current undergrad researcher) for winning the Regents’ and Chancellor’s Research Fellowship!