Engineering wired life: synthetic biology for electroactive bacteria

LJ Bird, BB Kundu, T Tschirhart, AD Corts… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electroactive bacteria produce or consume electrical current by moving electrons to and
from extracellular acceptors and donors. This specialized process, known as extracellular …

Enzymatic and microbial electrochemistry: approaches and methods

G Bedendi, LD De Moura Torquato… - ACS Measurement …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The coupling of enzymes and/or intact bacteria with electrodes has been vastly investigated
due to the wide range of existing applications. These span from biomedical and biosensing …

Elucidating biofouling over thermal and spatial gradients in seawater membrane distillation in hot climatic conditions

H Elcik, A Alpatova, G Gonzalez-Gil, B Blankert… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Biofouling is a hurdle of seawater desalination that increases water costs and energy
consumption. In membrane distillation (MD), biofouling development is complicated due to …

Marinobacter: A case study in bioelectrochemical chassis evaluation

LJ Bird, RL Mickol, BJ Eddie, M Thakur… - Microbial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The junction of bioelectrochemical systems and synthetic biology opens the door to many
potentially groundbreaking technologies. When developing these possibilities, choosing the …

Engineering a Rhamnose-Inducible System to Enhance the Extracellular Electron Transfer Ability of Shewanella Genus for Improved Cr(VI) Reduction

L Cheng, RL He, D Min, WW Li, DF Liu… - Acs Es&T …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Members of the Shewanella genus play important roles in bioenergy generation and
environmental bioremediation, but their practical applications in engineered systems are still …

Nanoliter scale electrochemistry of natural and engineered electroactive bacteria

MD Yates, LJ Bird, BJ Eddie, EL Onderko, CA Voigt… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bacterial extracellular electron transfer (EET) is envisioned for use in applied
biotechnologies, necessitating electrochemical characterization of natural and engineered …

Marine Biofilm Engineered to Produce Current in Response to Small Molecules

LJ Bird, DH Leary, J Hervey, J Compton… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Engineered electroactive bacteria have potential applications ranging from sensing to
biosynthesis. In order to advance the use of engineered electroactive bacteria, it is important …

A living conductive marine biofilm engineered to sense and respond to small molecules

LJ Bird, D Leary, J Hervey, J Compton, D Phillips… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Engineered electroactive bacteria have potential applications ranging from sensing to
biosynthesis. In order to advance the use of engineered electroactive bacteria, it is important …

Biomass-specific rates as key performance indicators: a nitrogen balancing method for biofilm-based electrochemical conversion

M Winkelhorst, O Cabau-Peinado… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) employ microorganisms utilizing solid-state
electrodes as either electron sink or electron source, such as in microbial electrosynthesis …

Engineered Living Conductive Biofilms

LJ Bird, FJ Otero, MD Yates, BJ Eddie… - Engineered Living …, 2022 - Springer
Living conductive biofilms are biomaterials comprised of bacterial cells electrically
connected to each other and to electrodes across multiple length scales. The properties of …