New paper just published in Ecology!
In research spanning Australia and part of Antarctica Delgado, Reith, Dennis, Hamots, Powell, Young, Singh and Bissett are looking at drivers of soil community composition on the continental scale.
Tag Archives: Science
Bakterien spucken Gold?!
Congratulations to Dietrich and Frank!
For our German followers, check out the news on
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Wie Bakterien Goldnuggets machen
“How bacteria make gold” – an article in the German Newspaper Handelsblatt
A successful German – Australian cooperation
Thanks to Dietrich Nies, from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) a very successful cooperation is ongoing and bearing fruit.
Read the article in the German newspaper Focus
Interview with ABC Radio (Sydney)
Listen to an interview with Prof Frank Reith and Chris Bath from ABC Radio
Great news story in the ABC
Check out the ABC story :
Geologists find bacteria that takes traces of gold and turns them into nuggets
The Microbes and Heavy Metal Group at Goldschmidt, Paris 2017
represented by Dr. Jeremiah Shuster and Ms Angelica Rea
presenting:
- Microbial gold (trans)formation: Examples from Europe and Asia
- Cultured bacterial communities from Australian and African gold grains (with Santonu Sanyal)
- Environmental Gold Cycling: The Need for a Kinetic Model
- The Biogeochemical Cycling of Silver in Acidic Surface Environments
and presented by our friend and collaborator Johannes Hommel from the University of Stuttgart:
Dr Johannes Hommel
- Development and Implementation of a Gold Mobility Model
This week in Melbourne: Harpreet Bhatia representing the Group at AUSME- The Inaugural Conference for Microbial Ecology in Australia – And giving an excellent talk on her work on gold biosensors.
Green screen- TV Interview in Munich
Today Frank had an interview for the science show ZDF Nano and Leschs Kosmos at Caligari Film GmbH in Munich. It was all about gold and the group’s work on geomicrobial gold cycling.
Looking forward to the final product!
Impressions from behind the scenes:
Gold Science Breakthrough – watch the video!
Please klick on the following link:
Gold Sciene Breakthrough – collaboration with John Parsons
and watch the video!
A big THANK YOU to John Parsons from the Prophet Gold Mine in Kilkivan, who is working with Frank for years and supports his research!
The man with the gold bug 