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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Exploring sulfur cycle anaerobes for biocatalysis of
  CO2 reduction and H2 production"
DTSTART:20200519T121500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Inês Cardoso Pereira\, Bacterial Energy Metabolism Lab\, I
 nstituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier\, Portugal\nA
 bstract:\nDissimilatory sulfate reduction is a key microbial process that 
 sets off the biogeochemical sulfur cycle. We are interested in understandi
 ng how energy is conserved in the process of sulfate respiration\, and hav
 e studied several membrane complexes and soluble proteins from these organ
 isms [1\,2]. In this talk I will highlight some recent advances in this ar
 ea [3] as well as work on exploring the metabolism of sulfate reducers and
  proteins thereof for useful biocatalytic conversions related to CO2 reduc
 tion and H2 production.\n\n[1] Rabus R\, Venceslau SS\, Wöhlbrand L\, Voo
 rdouw G\, Wal JDl and Pereira IAC (2015) A Post-Genomic View of the Ecophy
 siology\, Catabolism and Biotechnological Relevance of Sulphate-Reducing P
 rokaryotes. Adv. Microb. Physiol. 66\, 55\n[2] Santos AA\, Venceslau SS\, 
 Grein F\, Leavitt WD\, Dahl C\, Johnston DT\, Pereira IAC (2015) Science\,
  350\, 1541\n[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 e
 nergy conservation. Nature Comm.\, 9\, 5448\n\nShort biography:\nInês Car
 doso Pereira is Principal Investigator with Habilitation at ITQB NOVA\, a 
 research institute of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa\, Portugal\, where s
 he heads the Microbial Energy Metabolism Laboratory. She got her PhD degre
 e from the University of Oxford\, UK working with Jack Baldwin on the bios
 ynthesis of cephalosporins. She returned to Portugal to do a Post-Doc with
  Antonio Xavier and Miguel Teixeira on metalloproteins from anaerobes\, an
 d later took a position as Assistant Professor and group leader at ITQB NO
 VA. 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 microbi
 al physiology of anaerobes\, and in particular in their bioenergetics and 
 evolution. Her work has focused mainly on sulfur cycle bacteria. In additi
 on\, her group also studies the mechanism and engineering of biotechnologi
 cally relevant enzymes and applications of anaerobes in bioenergy and bior
 emediation. She has over 100 publications and an h-index of 39 (Google Sch
 olar).\n\nhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-hxebEEAAAAJ&hl=en
LOCATION:Join ZOOM - ID 92723305112 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/92723305112
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