Shino Suzuki   J. Gijs Kuenen   Kira Schipper   Suzanne van der Velde   Shun'ichi Ishii   Angela Wu   Dimitry Y. Sorokin   Aaron Tenney   XianYing Meng   Penny L. Morrill   Yoichi Kamagata   Gerard Muyzer   Kenneth H. Nealson   
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 5 3900 2014年5月 [査読有り]
Serpentinization, or the aqueous alteration of ultramafic rocks, results in challenging environments for life in continental sites due to the combination of extremely high pH, low salinity and lack of obvious electron acceptors and carbon sources....
Beatriz Camara   Shino Suzuki   Kenneth H. Nealson   Jacek Wierzchos   Carmen Ascaso   Octavio Artieda   Asuncion de los Rios   
INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY 17(4) 235-247 2014年 [査読有り]
This study explores the photosynthetic microbial colonization of rhyolitic ignimbrites in Lomas de Tilocalar, a hyper-arid region of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Colonization appeared in the form of a green layer a few millimeters beneath the ignimb...
Shun'ichi Ishii   Shino Suzuki   Trina M. Norden-Krichmar   Angela Wu   Yuko Yamanaka   Kenneth H. Nealson   Orianna Bretschger   
WATER RESEARCH 47(19) 7120-7130 2013年12月 [査読有り]
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are devices that exploit microorganisms as "biocatalysts" to recover energy from organic matter in the form of electricity. MFCs have been explored as possible energy neutral wastewater treatment systems; however, funda...
Penny L. Morrill   J. Gijs Kuenen   Orion J. Johnson   Shino Suzuki   Amanda Rietze   Alex L. Sessions   Marilyn L. Fogel   Kenneth H. Nealson   
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 109 222-240 2013年5月 [査読有り]
Ultra-basic (pH 11-12) reducing (-656 to -585 mV) groundwater springs discharging from serpentinized peridotite of The Cedars, CA, were investigated for their geochemistry and geobiology. The spring waters investigated were of meteoric origin; how...