EESS talk on "Exploring sulfur cycle anaerobes for biocatalysis of CO2 reduction and H2 production"
Event details
| Date | 19.05.2020 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:00 |
| Speaker | Dr Inês Cardoso Pereira, Bacterial Energy Metabolism Lab, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
Dissimilatory sulfate reduction is a key microbial process that sets off the biogeochemical sulfur cycle. We are interested in understanding how energy is conserved in the process of sulfate respiration, and have studied several membrane complexes and soluble proteins from these organisms [1,2]. In this talk I will highlight some recent advances in this area [3] as well as work on exploring the metabolism of sulfate reducers and proteins thereof for useful biocatalytic conversions related to CO2 reduction and H2 production.
[1] Rabus R, Venceslau SS, Wöhlbrand L, Voordouw G, Wal JDl and Pereira IAC (2015) A Post-Genomic View of the Ecophysiology, Catabolism and Biotechnological Relevance of Sulphate-Reducing Prokaryotes. Adv. Microb. Physiol. 66, 55
[2] Santos AA, Venceslau SS, Grein F, Leavitt WD, Dahl C, Johnston DT, Pereira IAC (2015) Science, 350, 1541
[3] Duarte AG, Catarino T, White GF, Lousa L, Neukirchen S, Soares CM, Sousa FL, Clarke TA & Pereira IAC (2018) An electrogenic redox loop in sulfate reduction reveals a likely widespread mechanism of energy conservation. Nature Comm., 9, 5448
Short biography:
Inês Cardoso Pereira is Principal Investigator with Habilitation at ITQB NOVA, a research institute of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, where she heads the Microbial Energy Metabolism Laboratory. She got her PhD degree from the University of Oxford, UK working with Jack Baldwin on the biosynthesis of cephalosporins. She returned to Portugal to do a Post-Doc with Antonio Xavier and Miguel Teixeira on metalloproteins from anaerobes, and later took a position as Assistant Professor and group leader at ITQB NOVA. She was Director of the ITQB NOVA PhD program from 2008 to 2014, and is currently Vice-Dean of this institute. She is interested in the microbial physiology of anaerobes, and in particular in their bioenergetics and evolution. Her work has focused mainly on sulfur cycle bacteria. In addition, her group also studies the mechanism and engineering of biotechnologically relevant enzymes and applications of anaerobes in bioenergy and bioremediation. She has over 100 publications and an h-index of 39 (Google Scholar).
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-hxebEEAAAAJ&hl=en
Dissimilatory sulfate reduction is a key microbial process that sets off the biogeochemical sulfur cycle. We are interested in understanding how energy is conserved in the process of sulfate respiration, and have studied several membrane complexes and soluble proteins from these organisms [1,2]. In this talk I will highlight some recent advances in this area [3] as well as work on exploring the metabolism of sulfate reducers and proteins thereof for useful biocatalytic conversions related to CO2 reduction and H2 production.
[1] Rabus R, Venceslau SS, Wöhlbrand L, Voordouw G, Wal JDl and Pereira IAC (2015) A Post-Genomic View of the Ecophysiology, Catabolism and Biotechnological Relevance of Sulphate-Reducing Prokaryotes. Adv. Microb. Physiol. 66, 55
[2] Santos AA, Venceslau SS, Grein F, Leavitt WD, Dahl C, Johnston DT, Pereira IAC (2015) Science, 350, 1541
[3] Duarte AG, Catarino T, White GF, Lousa L, Neukirchen S, Soares CM, Sousa FL, Clarke TA & Pereira IAC (2018) An electrogenic redox loop in sulfate reduction reveals a likely widespread mechanism of energy conservation. Nature Comm., 9, 5448
Short biography:
Inês Cardoso Pereira is Principal Investigator with Habilitation at ITQB NOVA, a research institute of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, where she heads the Microbial Energy Metabolism Laboratory. She got her PhD degree from the University of Oxford, UK working with Jack Baldwin on the biosynthesis of cephalosporins. She returned to Portugal to do a Post-Doc with Antonio Xavier and Miguel Teixeira on metalloproteins from anaerobes, and later took a position as Assistant Professor and group leader at ITQB NOVA. She was Director of the ITQB NOVA PhD program from 2008 to 2014, and is currently Vice-Dean of this institute. She is interested in the microbial physiology of anaerobes, and in particular in their bioenergetics and evolution. Her work has focused mainly on sulfur cycle bacteria. In addition, her group also studies the mechanism and engineering of biotechnologically relevant enzymes and applications of anaerobes in bioenergy and bioremediation. She has over 100 publications and an h-index of 39 (Google Scholar).
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-hxebEEAAAAJ&hl=en
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- EESS - IIE
Contact
- Prof. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, EML