Center for Geomicrobiology

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

Fascinerende syn: Amøber æder lange kabelbakterier som spaghetti

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

Concurrent Methane Production and Oxidation in Surface Sediment from Aarhus Bay, Denmark 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...

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

scitech.au.dk

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.

A TALE OF A FJORD - LIMFJORD - 10.000 YEARS IN 4 MINUTES The project SEDITRAPS, lead by researchers from GEUS with partners at Department of Geoscience in Aarhus is an exploration of the environmental history using...

Scientific expedition to Svalbard 2017

Scientific expedition to Svalbard 2017

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

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

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/

Alberto Scoma recieves the VLIZ North Sea Award 2016 Congratulations Alberto!

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/

How do bacteria act with built-in electrical wires? 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.

Petrophysics Summer School - 2017 - U.S. Science Support Program The U.S. Science Support Program, IODP, is pleased to announce an upcoming Summer School focused on Petrophysics, at the University of Leicester, UK.

Chasing Microbes: The Secret Superheroes of Our Planet CAPTION: To understand the impacts of a powerful greenhouse gas, Explorer Jeff Marlow studies microbes from bottom of the ocean.

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

Quantification of anaerobic thermophilic endospores in marine sediment by microcalorimetry, and its use in bioprospecting for gas and oil 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...