John Coates, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology, Chair Plant & Microbial Biology, and Academic Director, Energy Biosciences Institute
The power of biology to fuel the future: microbially mediated electromagnetic to chemical energy transformations
Tuesday, September 18
12 PM
AHF 153 (Torrey Webb Room)
Abstract: The Coates Lab focuses on environmental microbiology: applied microbiology and bioremediation. We investigate removal of radioactive toxic metals, carcinogenic petroleum-based hydrocarbon contaminants, and toxic munitions byproducts from the environment. Recently, we identified dominant groups of bacteria that can transform perchlorate wastes into innocuous chloride, isolated and characterized more than 40 such bacteria, and identified the common biochemical pathway and genetic systems involved.
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