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

Iterative engineering of heterologous conductive nanowire enhances bid… sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Shewanella further optimized for current generation by iteratively improving heterologous expression of Geobacter metallireducens pilin assembly into nanowires. @ISMETsociety

Postdoctoral Fellow – Protein Nanowire Electronics for Wearable Sensors nature.com/naturecareers/job…

Growth of Desulfovibrio strain JY on stainless steel reveals a previously unrecognized sulfate-reducer corrosion mechanism authors.elsevier.com/a/1nbPR… Sulfate reducers don’t only corrode iron by producing sulfide. Introducing elecrobiocorrosion by an electroactive sulfate reducer.

Single-cell adhesion force predicts electrobiocorrosion rates of stainless steel sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Let the force be with Shewanella! Genetically manipulating adhesive protein expression modifies corrosion rates. #electromicrobiology #electrobiocorrosion

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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