Center for Geomicrobiology

18/07/2017

Maybe you are digging into a plate of pasta in Italy right now but guess what is happening in Aarhus Bay?! Amoebae slurp up Cable bacteria like it was spaghetti! - New popular science piece from the Cable Bacteria group at Center for Geomicrobiology - here is a link to the article for those who can read Danish! :)

http://videnskab.dk/naturvidenskab/fascinerende-syn-amoeber-aeder-lange-kabelbakterier-som-spaghetti

03/07/2017

Ke-Quing, a PhD student at the Center, just published his first article. Ke-Quing and fellow center scientists discovered a cryptic methane cycle in surface sediments of Aarhus Bay!

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01198/full

Marine surface sediments, which are replete with sulfate, are typically considered to be devoid of endogenous methanogenesis. Yet, methanogenic archaea are present in those sediments, suggesting a potential for methanogenesis. We used an isotope dilution method based on sediment bag incubation and s...

02/07/2017

Center Scientist Kasper U. Kjeldsen was awarded the VILLUM Experiment!
Congratulations, Kasper! 😊
Read more about this research grant and the VILLUM foundation here:

http://scitech.au.dk/en/about-science-and-technology/current-affairs/news/show/artikel/151-millioner-kr-til-dristige-forskningsideer/

http://veluxfoundations.dk/en/content/villum-experiment-dkk-70-million-38-unorthodox-research-ideas

26/06/2017

http://www.undergroundchannel.dk/a-tale-of-a-fjord-limfjord-10000-years-in-4
Underground Channel is a new geomedia dedicated to feature Danish geoscience. The channel shows the ongoing research in Geocenter Denmark and its relevance to our society. The Center for Geomicrobiology is not a formal partner in the Geocenter, but our good colleges at the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University, The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management (IGN) and Natural History Museum of Denmark are. The latest video (June 22th 2017) shows Kasper U. Kjeldsen and Hans Røy in the background doing typical fieldwork together with the featured scientists Niels Nørgaard-Pedersen and Ole Bennike from GEUS. Check out the many good geoscience videos at http://www.undergroundchannel.dk/videos.

The project SEDITRAPS, lead by researchers from GEUS with partners at Department of Geoscience in Aarhus is an exploration of the environmental history using...

25/06/2017

Scientific expedition to Svalbard 2017

25/06/2017

Scientific expedition to Svalbard 2017

20/06/2017

https://twitter.com/centerfgeomicro/status/874633680899190784

“Fresh from the press! New center paper by Caitlin Petro et al. exploring microbial community assembly in marine sediments https://t.co/MkVwbx1pAS”

27/04/2017

CfG postdoc Alberto Scoma receives VLIZ North Sea Award 2016! Congratulations Alberto :)
Read more about Alberto's research and the award:

http://geomicrobiology.au.dk/currently/news/show/artikel/alberto-scoma-recieves-the-vliz-north-sea-award-2016/

Congratulations Alberto!

27/04/2017

The new Center for Electromicrobiology (CEM) at Aarhus University!
http://scitech.au.dk/en/about-science-and-technology/current-affairs/news/show/artikel/hvordan-fungerer-bakterier-med-indlagte-elektriske-ledninger/

Six years after the sensational discovery of cable bacteria, the Danish National Research Foundation is now awarding a grant of up to DKK 56 million to the Centre for Electromicrobiology at Aarhus University.

16/03/2017

The U.S. Science Support Program, IODP, is pleased to announce an upcoming Summer School focused on Petrophysics, at the University of Leicester, UK.

15/03/2017

CAPTION: To understand the impacts of a powerful greenhouse gas, Explorer Jeff Marlow studies microbes from bottom of the ocean.

14/03/2017

New Paper in Limnology and Oceanography Methods: Quantification of anaerobic thermophilic endospores in marine sediment by microcalorimetry, and its use in bioprospecting for gas and oil

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lom3.10176/full

Endospores of anaerobic thermophilic bacteria (thermospores) are ubiquitous in cold marine sediments. These misplaced thermophiles likely originate from warm environments and are delivered to the seafloor...