{"id":609,"date":"2014-06-04T13:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=609"},"modified":"2014-06-04T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:41:03","slug":"research-seminar-controlling-electron-transfer-at-the-microbe-mineral-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/06\/04\/research-seminar-controlling-electron-transfer-at-the-microbe-mineral-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar: Controlling electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Tom Clarke, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 9th June, 4.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many bacteria can use solid minerals and metal oxides during respiration instead of oxygen, causing the minerals to dissolve.\u00a0 This process requires electrons generated during metabolism to be transported through the outer membrane of the bacterial and to the mineral surface. \u00a0Our research has focused on the path these electrons take and the proteins involved in their transport.\u00a0 We identified a porin-cytochrome \u2018wire&#8217; that controls electron transfer through the outer membrane, and probed how the\u00a0multihaem cytochromes that cover the cell surface can interact with a mineral surface.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/06\/04\/research-seminar-controlling-electron-transfer-at-the-microbe-mineral-interface\/&amp;t=Research Seminar: Controlling electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface.' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Research Seminar: Controlling electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface.%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/06\/04\/research-seminar-controlling-electron-transfer-at-the-microbe-mineral-interface\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/06\/04\/research-seminar-controlling-electron-transfer-at-the-microbe-mineral-interface\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/06\/04\/research-seminar-controlling-electron-transfer-at-the-microbe-mineral-interface\/&amp;title=Research Seminar: Controlling electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface.' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/06\/04\/research-seminar-controlling-electron-transfer-at-the-microbe-mineral-interface\/&amp;title=Research Seminar: Controlling electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface.' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tom Clarke, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia Monday 9th June, 4.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1 Many bacteria can use solid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/06\/04\/research-seminar-controlling-electron-transfer-at-the-microbe-mineral-interface\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50580],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}