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Living microorganisms can be found in the many million years old sediments of the sub-surface seabed - and even in the underlying oceanic crust of basalt. At the Center for Geomicrobiology we explore life deep down in the seabed. We study which energy sources maintain life down there and we develop methods to analyze the diversity of the deep biosphere and its role in the marine element cycles.

NEWS

  • Bo Barker Jørgensen and Lars Peter Nielsen receive two ERC Advanced Grants. Read the mention here (26.01.12).
  • Bacteria are vital in recycling nutrients and sustain life. Read interview with Hans Røy in the article "Uden bakterier dør vi alle sammen" on videnskab.dk (17.01.12).
  • Kasper U. Kjeldsen and Mark Lever receive grant from AU Ideas for the project "Revealing the identity and function of carbon cycling microbes in the seabed by stable isotope probing-targeted metagenomics" (16.12.11).
  • Videnskab.dk has published the article "Livet i underverdenen" by Bo Barker Jørgensen and Camilla Nissen Toftdal on their website. Read the article here (05.12.11). The article was first published in Aktuel Naturvidenskab.
  • Bo Barker Jørgensen participates in the radio program Videnskabens Verden on P1. Listen to "Liv fundet dybt i undergrunden" here (18.10.11).
  • Newsletter from the Danish National Research Foundation.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS

  • Lever, Mark. / Acetogenesis in the energy-starved deep biosphere - a paradox?. Frontiers in Microbiology, no. 2, 1-18, 2012.
  • Petersen, Dorthe Groth, Steven J. Blazewicz, Mary Firestone, Donald J. Herman, Merritt Turetsky, Mark Waldrop. / Abundance of microbial genes associated with nitrogen cycling as indices of biogeochemical process rates across a vegetation gradient in Alaska. Environmental Microbiology. 2012
  • Lapham, Laura, Rachel Wilson, Jeffrey Chanton. /Pressurized laboratory experiments show no stable carbon isotope fractionation of methane during gas hydrate dissolution and dissociation. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 2, no. 1, 32-36, 2012.
  • Jørgensen, Bo Barker. / Deep subseafloor microbial cells on physiological standby. PNAS, Vol. 108, no. 45, 18193-18194, 2011.

List of publications from the Center

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CALENDAR

  • Seminar: Verena Salman, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany: "The giant sulfur bacteria - novel insights into the family Beggiatoaceae", Febr. 2, 15:00 in 1540-116.
  • Stable Isotope Workshop: A one-day workshop held at the Center for Geomicrobiology (1540-116) on February 29. Read more here.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation: The Center for Geomicrobiology will host the workshop, and it takes place during May 6-9, 2012. Read more here: www.microenergy2012.org.

NEW PHD

JULIA'S DEFENSE

  • Julia Rosa de Rezende obtained her PhD degree on November 24. Read a description of her work here.

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