Annette R. Rowe

TL;DR: Comparative metagenomics of the three Dehalococcoides-containing Consortia identified that similarities across the three consortia are more apparent at the functional level than at the taxonomic level, indicating the non-dechlorinating organisms’ identities can vary provided they fill the same niche within a consortium.

TL;DR: It is shown that cathode oxidation is linked to cellular energy acquisition, resulting in a quantifiable reduction in the cellular decay rate, highlighting a potential mechanism for cell survival and/or persistence on cathodes, which might extend to environments where growth and division are severely limited.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report measurements of resolved 12CH2D2 and 13CH3D at natural abundances in a variety of methane gases produced naturally and in the laboratory, and find that concordant temperatures do not always match previous hypotheses based on indirect estimates of temperature of formation nor temperatures derived from CH4/H2 D/H exchange.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that electrochemical enrichment is a feasible approach for isolation of microbes capable of gaining electrons from insoluble minerals, and sustained electrode oxidation from these isolates in the absence of alternate electron sources is demonstrated.

TL;DR: Emerging work, using electrodes as electron acceptors and donors is providing an abundance of new types of microbes capable of EET inward and/or outward: microbes that are clearly different from the authors' known systems.