JamieLustermans

Yesterday was the opening of #ISMET 9. Very happy to have already met so many interesting people in only an evening. Excited for what the program today holds :D

If you're interested in reading the "behind the paper" story of how we discovered this microbe, have a look at our blog post here: communities.springernature.com/posts/simultan… Sometimes, new discoveries begin not with a grand project, but with an unexpected observation while chasing another story. This one started with cable bacteria and enthusiastic friends. It ended with an interesting bacterium with an unconventional metabolism—and reminds us that nature still holds many surprises. @CEMAarhus @BiologyAarhus

Want to hear more about this amazing bacterium? Come to my presentation @FEMSmicro 2025 in Milan next week!

New electroactive Gram+ microbe ✔️ New simultaneous Fe and O2 respiring 🦠✔️ New hybrid G+/G- mechanism for EET ✔️ New manuscript @NatureComms ✔️ Very happy that we could publish something like this with friends @kartiksaiyer, Naja, Leonid Digel

Jesper R. Van Dijk defending his PhD today on #cablebacteria and their life cycle. Proud to say that he created a comprehensive work that furthered our knowledge of the #cablebacteria in sometimes unexpected directions

@Radair86 @BGR We are working on this ever since the first time the #cablebacteria were published, in 2012. It is a very interesting idea but unfortunately comes with many as of yet unresolved issues that we are also investigating. More info on our website: microbial-electricity.eu

@BGR Can we use this find for room temperature semi-conductors?

Scientists just discovered an organism that conducts electricity like a wire bgr.com/science/scient…

Working on my manuscript while eating home made oliebollen and listening to the #Top2000

Dr. Anwar Hiralal just defended his PhD about an incredible genomic adventure about #cablebacteria at #Uantwerpen. Again, many congratulations @anwar_hiralal

That one moment where you go to work and think "such a beautiful place I work at". Before you sit in an old building all day ;) #CampusDrieEiken #Uantwerpen For anyone who reads this, do you also have a picture that makes you feel like that at work?

Bent Smets defending his PhD on the #cablebacteria conductor (both the longest and the best biological electron conducting structure known to date!), now not less miraculous but a little more known. @UAntwerpen

Tinder with #cablebacteria, a great talk by @Jespervdijk during #pintofscience. Interested, curious? Look them up on microbial-electricity.eu

@CEMAarhus @vramya90 @novonordiskfond That is amazing @vramya90, many congrats 👏! And what a cool cake

Big congratulations @vramya90 for winning a 3-year postdoc grant from the @novonordiskfond! 👏🙌 Ramya will bring power to Ammonia by unleashing the Power of Microbes to Produce Green Ammonia using Bio-Electrochemical Hybrids🦠⚡️ #GreenEnergy #electrochemical #microbiology

I am extremely excited to share that I was awarded a #marieskłodowskacurieactions last week for my proposal: ENTER at #UAntwerp. During my MSCA fellowship, I will work with @FilipMeysman on discovering what is happening in #cablebacteria communities. lnkd.in/gGRPTTg4

Congratulations @DigelLeonid on defending an amazing thesis on #cablebacteria

It is weekend, but I could not resist thinking about this. We tested some techniques at our colleagues @VUBrussel on our #cablebacteria (these are the long black lines) and they decided to become a jellyfish. Clear evolution 🤣

@CEMAarhus @jabifon @BiologyAarhus @AarhusUni_int Congratulations Alexis @jafb Congratulations @jabifon 🎊 👏 💐

🎓🥳 Today is a remarkable day as we celebrate @jabifon defending his #PhDdegree on "Community and Control of Filamentous Sulfur Bacteria"!🙌📚 @BiologyAarhus @AarhusUni_int #proudofyou #PhDDefense #cablebacteria #PhDDefense" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">phd.nat.au.dk/about-us/curre… phd.nat.au.dk/about-us/curre…

Endlessly enjoyable talk of Stuart Lindsey (a physicist, not a biologist) who ends with a visual explanation of DNA polymerase activity like I've never seen before at the Electromicrobiology 2023 conference @CEMAarhus

Beautiful first day at my new job as #postdoc with Filip Meysman, working on #electric #cablebacteria (microbial-electricity.eu)

Cable bacteria are long, "filamentous bacteria that conduct electrons via internal wires." New study: Anaerobes — in lakes and ponds — swarm around these cable bacteria & give electrons for respiration. Cut the cable, lose the microbes. Beautiful. 📽️ nature.com/articles/s4146…

@NikoMcCarty We actually suspect they are aerobic bacteria that "flock" around the #cablebacteria in an anoxic environment. We also found that this phenomenon happens incredibly often frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…