Environmental: Bioelectrosynthesis

Thursday, August 15, 2013: 2:00 PM-4:30 PM
Spinnaker (Sheraton San Diego)
Convener:
Enrico Marsili - Dublin City University, Dublin,



2:00 PM
Microbial Electrosynthesis: Co-utilization of substrates and carbon dioxide
Aditya Vikram Pandit and Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2:30 PM
Conversion of CO2­ to chemicals by autotrophic microorganisms at a  negatively poised electrode
Christopher Marshall, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC and Harold May, Microbiology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
3:00 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Water-soluble oligo-electrolytes increase extracellular electron transfer in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 biofilms
Enrico Marsili1, Melissa Tan Yuan Li2, Kris Sivakumar2, Jamie Hinks2, Nathan Kirchhofer3, Alex Thomas3, Jenny Du3, Guillermo Bazan3, Bin Cao2, Joachim Loo2 and Stefan Wuertz2, (1)School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, (2)Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Science Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (3)University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
4:00 PM
Extracellular electron transport: changes in biofilm activity in response to surface potential
Shunichi Ishii1, Shino Suzuki1, Trina M Norden-Krichmar1, Aaron Tenney1, Patrick S. G. Chain2, Matthew Scholz2, Kenneth H. Nealson3 and Orianna Bretschger1, (1)J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego,, CA, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, (3)University of Southern California,, Los Angeles, CA
4:30 PM
Domesticating Geobacter to perform electrosynthesis by stimulating the electron-accepting capacity
Abraham Esteve-Núñez, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Alcalá,, Madrid, Spain
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