Microbial Metal Interactions

Hello, scientific community! Welcome to our research group BIO103 led by Dr Mohamed L. Merroun (University of Granada). We are updating our scientific activities. Stay tuned! :)

A new PhD joins the team! 👨🏻‍🎓🎉 Congratulations to Guillermo Lazúen on successfully defending his doctoral thesis focused on deciphering the physiological and molecular mechanisms of selenium resistance in Stenotrophomonas bentonitica BII-R7 🦠⚗️Good luck with your new projects!

Our PhD student Guillermo Lazúen last photo as part of the lab, but not the group 😊 Grateful for all the learning and great people, the PhD final journey continues 💪📚

📢 New article published in Corrosion Science! The study evaluates how gamma radiation and sulfate-reducing bacteria influence copper corrosion under conditions relevant to deep geological disposal of nuclear waste. Developed within the EURAD-1 & @EJP_EURAD-2 projects 🇪🇺

From Oct 14–16, the @CanalUGR will welcome experts from across the world for the 1st #InCoManD annual meeting. Hosted by Prof. Merroun’s group, participants will exchange the latest progress within the @EJP_EURAD project.

Teilo Crow & Bryn Goss, internship students from Swansea University: “We’re truly grateful for our placement in Granada! It was a great opportunity to explore microbiology, develop lab skills, and grow personally and professionally. Thanks to Prof. Merroun and the whole team!”

We recently published an interesting paper on chirality and chiral instabilities in ferrogels. Check it out here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

At the #FEMS2025 Congress in Milan🇮🇹, @crispopri presented innovative findings on the microbiology of deep geological repositories for nuclear waste☢️, highlighting microbial behavior in long-term storage environments.

This week, @maarmh and Lidia are attending the #Goldschmidt2025 Conference in Prague! They’re presenting exciting new research on the microbiology of deep geological nuclear waste repositories, shedding light on how microbes behave in extreme, long-term storage environments. 🦠☢️

Trung Le Duc from Liberec - PhD exchange student:"Grateful for a 3-month stay at @CanalUGR under Prof. Mohamed L. Merroun's supervision. I worked on microbial interactions with concrete and heavy metal bioremediation. Thanks to the @SURRI_2023 project and the whole research team"

Congrats to our PhD student @lidiator37 for winning 3rd prize for Best Oral Presentation at the XXX Congress of the Spanish Society for Microbiology (@SEMicrobiologia)! 🎉 Her talk focused on the role of fungi in metal corrosion of containers in Deep Geological Repositories

Last week, two of our PhD students (@lidiator37 and @esther_peula) participated in the XXX Congress of Spanish Society for Microbiology (@SEMicrobiologia) in Jaén. It was a great chance to learn, share their work and connect with researchers from across the field! 🔬🧫

Here is the link! doi.org/10.1016/j.jhaz…

Excited to share our new paper published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials! ☢️ We studied gamma radiation effects on FEBEX bentonite microbiology: key for nuclear waste safety 🦠 Part of the @EJP_EURAD project and in collaboration with @FFision @CIEMAT_OPI

Because science divulgation is so much fun! Discover bentonites, the heroes of radioactive waste repositories scienceinschool.org/article/2025/b… vía @embl

🚀 Day 2 of AI in Science course is kicking off! Organized by the ECR Council (Kim Sennhenn, Francesca Tugnoli, Antonio Newman) within @RadoNormEU, in collaboration with @CanalUGR (Prof. Mohamed Merroun). Thanks to the AI Granada Foundation for connecting us with top experts!

🔬 Big progress in our lab! Our PhD student, Lidia Generelo, has completed a short stay at @FFision to set up an experiment. This is part of #InCoManD WP @EJP_EURAD, an European project on the DGR of radioactive waste—one step closer to safer long-term storage!💡

📢 New paper published!🎉 We explored the long-term effect of bentonite compaction on bacterial viability. Our findings reveal how microbial communities can remain active for years 🔬🦠 Check it out! 👀authors.elsevier.com/a/1kdLT15DSlZF… #bentonite #DGR #microbiology

This work has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the group of @MTLopezLopez. We thank them for their valuable cooperation.

We are thrilled to share our latest publication titled: "Mechanically stable bacterial cells encapsulated in Na-alginate hydrogel for effective removal of toxic Se(IV) and its recovery as Se(0) nanostructures". Available on open acces at: doi.org/10.1016/j.rine…

🚀 New Paper Alert 🚀 The final PhD chapter of our college @BioMMartinez has been published 🎉 Check the Research Article here 👉🏼 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWqJB8cd44Bh #NewPublicatiom #Microbiology #NuclearWaste