Geobacter Project
Geobacter Project
University of Massachusetts

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DateTitlePublication
Video
2007-01-10Bug Powered BatteriesPBS Science Investigators
2006-06-30Cover Story: Microbial Fuel CellsWGGB TV-40 News
2004-12-03Uranium Clean-upMicrobeWorld Radio
2004-04-22Mud Is Making Waves - Electrical OnesChronicle, WCVB-TV5
2003-12-16Bacterial Batteries (QuickTime)ScienCentral.com
2003-12-16Bacterial Batteries (Real Media)ScienCentral.com
2003-09-09"Sugar" RushChannel 40
2002-01-17Channel 22 InterviewChannel 22
2001-01-13The 3 million dollar bacteriaChannel 40
Audio
2010-07-30Geobacter - Origins of lifeThe Pulse of the Planet
2010-07-29Geobacter - Strain 121The Pulse of the Planet
2010-07-28Geobacter - Electricity from mudThe Pulse of the Planet
2010-07-21Geobacter - Cleaning up toxic wasteThe Pulse of the Planet
2010-07-20Geobacter - DiscoveryThe Pulse of the Planet
2010-04-30NPR Science Friday (excerpt) - discussion of Geobacter microbial fuel cell research with ONR program director Dr. Linda ChriseyNPR Science Friday
2009-07-29UMass/Amherst microbiologists explore new area in renewable energyWFCR-FM
2007-06-01Microbes Power UpMicrobeWorld Radio
2007-01-13Getting a Charge Out of Manure and SeawaterNPR All Things Considered
2006-10-04Putting Global Warming Under a MicroscopeNPR Earthbeat Radio
2006-06-02KMOX Science Desk: Microbial Fuel CellsKMOX 1120 The Voice of St. Louis
2006-03-30Electrifying Geobacter NanowiresMicrobeworld Radio Show
2005-10-04WFCR News: Lovley awarded $21.8 million DOE grantWFCR FM-88.5
2005-09-22Imagine That! Microbial Fuel CellsImagine That!
2005-06-22Radio spot on Geobacter, electricity production, and nanowiresWFCR FM-88.5
2005-05-03Imagine That! Strain 121 FeatureFinger Lakes Productions Int'l
2005-05-01Discovering GeobacterCommonwealth Journal
2004-05-27Geobacter: Origins of LifePulse of the Planet
2004-05-21Geobacter: Strain 121Pulse of the Planet
2004-05-20Geobacter: Creating Electricity From MudPulse of the Planet
2004-04-29MR2 with guests Derek Lovley and Richard GlavenWMUA 91.1 FM
2004-04-06Geobacter: Cleaning Up Toxic WastePulse of the Planet
2004-04-05Geobacter: DiscoveryPulse of the Planet
2004-03-14Electricity from MudWTOP News on Engineering
2003-12-12Bioremediation - Scientists have sequenced the genome of a bacterium that can mop up radioactive metals in ground water.Talk of the Nation (NPR)
2003-10-13Bugs boost Cold War clean-upNature
2003-10-08Bacterial BatteriesScience Update
2003-08-19Microbe raises heat limits for lifeNational Public Radio
2003-03-18Boston Harbor Is Coming BackMicrobeWorld
2002-01-20Weekend ATC InterviewNational Public Radio
2002-01-18Talk of the Nation InterviewNational Public Radio
Print
2010-06-25There's some hope on the energy frontCourier-Life
2010-06-01The sun is setting on petrochemicals, with a little help from Lovley microbesCleanTechnica.com
2010-05-31Microbial electrosynthesis turns solar energy into chemicalsEnvironmental Protection Online
2010-05-27Transformative method produces green biofuelsLaboratory Equipment
2010-05-25Solar power to help convert carbon dioxide into fuelEnergy Matters
2010-05-25Green fuel from solar power, bacteria and carbon dioxideFrontier India
2010-05-25Sneak peek at electrofuels: Geobacter team aims for bio-based solution to solar energy storageBiofuels Digest
2010-05-07Putting carbon dioxide to workDaily Hampshire Gazette
2010-05-03Fuel-producing Geobacter receives support from new research grantPhysorg.com
2010-04-30Getting the Bugs Out, a New Approach to Renewable FuelsNew York Times
2010-04-30UMass microbiologist Derek Lovley wins $1 million U.S. Department of Energy grantThe Republican
2010-04-20Navy Develops Battery that Runs on MudPlanetsave.com
2009-12-24New microbe strain generates more powerWE&T Research Notes
2009-11-13The 50 best inventions of 2009 - The electric microbeTime
2009-09-14Bacterial batteriesBirmingham Science News Examiner
2009-09-10Harnessing bacteria to make fuel cells more efficientScience Daily
2009-09-08Making more efficient fuel cellsChemistry Times
2009-09-08Bacteria can help convert waste to powerPakistan Ki Awaz
2009-09-08Making more efficient fuel cellsChemEurope
2009-09-08Not-so-stupid microbe tricksMSNBC.com
2009-09-07Electric germsScenta
2009-09-07Bacteria with tiny projections can make efficient fuel cellsThaindian.com
2009-09-07Bacteria can help convert waste to powerTimes of India
2009-09-07Making more efficient fuel cellsScience Centric
2009-09-07Bacteria can help convert waste to powerSamay Live
2009-09-06Researchers discover way to make more efficient microbial fuel cellsAzoNanotechnology
2009-08-31Powerful ideas: bacteria clean sewage and create electricityLive Science
2009-08-28Eureka!: Geobacter keeps on conductingDaily Hampshire Gazette
2009-08-06The little microbe that could...power your homeEnergyBoom
2009-08-05An ancient bug makes electricityABC News
2009-08-04Microbe that extracts energy from mud gets ready for use in fuel cellsPopular Science
2009-08-03More efficient electricity-making GeobacterThe Chemical Engineer
2009-08-03Microbes make electricity from wastewaterSoftpedia
2009-08-03Electricity-generating Geobacter bacteria made strongerGreentech Media
2009-08-03Researchers coax electricity from Geobacter super-microbesCleanTechnica
2009-08-02New microbe strain can make more electricityThaindian News
2009-08-01Odd power: New microbe strain makes more electricity, fasterReliable Plant
2009-07-28Researchers Develop New Geobacter Microbe Strain to Produce More Electricity, Open New ApplicationsPhysorg.com
2009-02-16Better Bioremediation at Uranium Mill Tailings SiteInsciences.org
2009-01-04Bacteria bubbling at UMassThe Republican
2007-12-06Bacterias generadoras de electricidadEl Faro (UNAM)
2007-09-26Bacteria may be wiring up the soilNature
2007-08-30Green Energy: Eco-Friendly BatteriesTime Magazine
2007-06-15Little Geobacter still sparks discoveries after 20 yearsThe Greenfield Recorder
2007-05-15Harnessing the Power of MicrobesBioCycle, May 2007, Vol. 48, No. 5
2007-05-15Power In Space: Time For A Biological SolutionSpace Daily
2007-02-12The latest dirt on technology: River germs could run computersThe Boston Globe
2007-01-15Invention: Bacterial ElectronicsNewScientistTech
2006-11-24Abelson Seminar: It's Time for Microbes to Have Their DueScience Magazine
2006-08-30Le sol, la boite a outils des biotechnologies environnementalesBiotech.Info
2006-06-28Microbial Fuel CellsSolar Times
2006-06-06Fuel cell powerFuelCellWorks
2006-06-05The Tiniest Power Plants: Scientists are seeing a host of possibilities in electricity produced by microbesBusiness Week
2006-06-01Energy Crisis? Talk to These Bacteria!The Why? Files
2006-05-22Bacteria might prove to be energy sourceUPI
2006-05-16Professor amps up output of power from bacteriaBoston Globe
2006-05-15It's Electric! Geobacter is cleaning up pollution; it proves to be a petite powerhouse as wellUMass Magazine
2006-05-12Bacteria power may be possibleThe (Springfield) Republican
2006-05-11Scientist Revs Up Power of Microbial Fuel Cells in Unexpected WaysPhysOrg.com
2006-05-11Power though gooThe Engineer Online
2006-05-10Scientist Revs Up Power of Microbial Fuel Cells in Unexpected WaysFuelCellWorks.com
2006-02-04Microbial Moxie: Bacteria-based fuel cells provide powerScience News
2006-01-12UMass to get $2.4 millionThe (Springfield) Republican
2006-01-12UMass nets $2.4M in defense grantsHampshire Gazette
2005-11-06Gulliver's fuel cell travels: Investors back a wide mixFuelCellWorks.com
2005-11-01Microbe Power!Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 113, No. 11
2005-11-01Forscher schwören auf Mikroben in Umweltschutz und Medizin: »Bakterien sind wundervoll«PM Magazin (in German)
2005-10-18Computer Modeling of Microbes Will Yield Improved Clean-UpsNewswise
2005-10-04$21.8 million grant funds UMass workThe Republican
2005-10-04Microbe study nets UMass $21.8 millionHampshire Gazette
2005-10-03Energy Department awards $92 millionEurekAlert!
2005-10-03UMass scientist gets DOE grant to study microbesAssociated Press
2005-08-08Bacteria grow conductive wiresEETimes Online
2005-08-08Productie nanowires mogelijk met bacteriën (Bacteria can produce nanowires - in Dutch)PDA.Tweakers.Net
2005-07-16Bacterial tresses conduct electricityScience News
2005-07-08UMass research team plugged into geobactersThe Republican
2005-07-03UMass researchers say "wired" microbes could power electronicsAssociated Press
2005-06-29Microbial Nanowiresworldchanging.com
2005-06-29Microbes pave way for 'nanowires'vnunet.com
2005-06-25Subterranean bugs reach out for their energyNew Scientist
2005-06-25Microbe powered, An electrifying discovery made by UMass teamDaily Hampshire Gazette
2005-06-23Bakterieller ElektroschockerSpektrum Direkt (German language)
2005-06-22Microbes Found to Produce Miniature Electrical Wiresnewswise.com
2005-02-23Mars life report not so far-fetchedThe Republican
2004-10-12Dirt to Energy at the University of Massachusetts - ?Iron-Breathing? Bacteria Show Promise as Electricity SourcesNorthern Sky News
2004-09-04Electrifying Toxic Cleanup - Electrodes could stimulate removal of radioactive wasteScience News
2004-07-19'Wonderbug' changes waste into powerKnight Ridder Newspapers
2004-05-26Strain 121 (in Hungarian)National Geographic Magyarorszag
2004-05-26Heat-Loving Microbes Offer Clues to Life's OriginsNational Geographic News
2004-05-21Hottest Life-Form Found: Microbe Thrives When BoilingNational Geographic News
2004-04-30Derek R. Lovley receives 2004 Proctor & Gamble Award from American Society for MicrobiologyEurekAlert!
2004-04-12Rust-Breathing Bacteria: Miracle Microbes?National Geographic News
2004-04-04Microorganism Cleans Up Toxic GroundwaterNational Geographic News
2004-02-09The Planet Protectors: Getting a Charge Out of MudTime Magazine
2004-01-01The Biology of . . . Batteries. Socket to MeDiscover
2003-12-12Perfidious proteobacterium - Analysis of Geobacter genome unearths many previously unrecognized capabilitiesThe Scientist
2003-12-12Uranium bug has power potentialBBC News
2003-12-12Scientists see big role for uranium clean-up bugThe Guardian
2003-12-12Super Microbe Cleans Up UraniumGenome News Network
2003-12-12Energy Department-funded Scientists Decode DNA of Bacterium that Cleans Up Uranium Contamination and Generates ElectricityU.S. Department of Energy
2003-12-11Genome map shows how bacterium gobbles radiationReuters
2003-12-11Bacterium cleans up uranium, generates electricityScienceBlog.com
2003-12-11Scientists decipher genome of bacterium that remediates uranium contamination, generates electricityEurekAlert!
2003-10-25Sweet-toothed microbe tapped for powerScience News
2003-10-21Bugs Save the Day - Bacteria Offer Solutions to Waste Disposal, New Energy NeedsABC News
2003-10-16Breathing rust - and new life into bug scienceChristian Science Monitor
2003-10-16Microbes that can mop up uraniumThe Guardian
2003-09-18A Sugar Cube, Please: I Need to Charge My CellphoneNew York Times
2003-09-15Bakteriális akkun dolgoznak a tudósok (Scientists are developing bacterial battery - in Hungarian)SG.hu
2003-09-12Microbe Sweet on Making PowerScience
2003-09-09Bacteria Power: Energy of the Future?Discovery Channel News
2003-09-09Deep Under the Sea, Boiling Founts of Life ItselfNew York Times
2003-09-09Bacteriële batterij zet suiker om in elektriciteit (Bacterial Battery converts sugar to electricity - in Dutch)Tweakers.net
2003-09-08Bugpower, the energy of the futureAl Jazeera
2003-09-08New fuel cells use germs to generate electricityBoston Globe
2003-09-08Bacteria-powered battery runs on a sweet toothUSA Today
2003-08-19Observatory: "Surviving the Heat"New York Times
2003-08-15Heat-loving microbe expands limits of lifeAtlanta Journal-Constitution
2003-08-15Newly found microbe can take a lot of heatBoston Globe
2003-08-14Microbe Survives At Temperatures Above Sterilization StandardUMass News Office
2003-08-14Microbe from Depths Takes Life to Hottest Known LimitNSF Press Release
2003-08-14Microbe Can Survive at 226 DegreesKansas City Star (AP)
2003-07-23UMass Faculty Member Receives Federal Funds To Continue Research On Water CleanupUMass News Office
2003-07-18The pervasive presence of microbesUMass Magazine
2002-11-14Microorganisms Are Cleaning Up Boston Harbor, UMass Study FindsScienceDaily
2002-08-12Research follows nature's wayDaily Hampshire Gazette
2002-07-26Lovley lands $8.9m grant for microbial studiesUMass Campus Chronicle
2002-07-01Power from the DeepNature Biotechnology
2002-05-12"Europa-tűrő" baktérium? ("Europa tolerant" bacteria - in Hungarian)Magyar Asztronautikai Társaság
2002-05-10Deep Life in the Slow, Slow LaneScience
2002-05-10Geobiologists: as diverse as the bugs they study.Science
2002-02-21UMass scientists find environment on Earth that's similar to MarsGreenfield Recorder
2002-01-22From the muddy depthsNew York Times
2002-01-21Getting the dirt on mudDaily Hampshire Gazette
2002-01-18Microbes Use Mud to Make ElectricityScience
2002-01-18Microbes could survive on Mars, say scientistsUMass Campus Chronicle
2002-01-18UMass study gets downright dirty: Microbes turning mud into electricityGreenfield Recorder
2002-01-17Tough Bugs Point to Life on MarsBBC
2002-01-17Microbes shed light on possibility of life on MarsBoston Herald
2002-01-17Found: Life on Earth That Could Exist on MarsNew York Times
2002-01-17Mud and batteries may clean waterUSA Today
2002-01-16Finding of microbial colony in U.S. suggests life could live on MarsNational Geographic News
2002-01-01Midas microbesDiscover
2001-12-14Department of Energy funds genomic researchUMass Campus Chronicle
2001-12-13UMass researcher gets 3.1 millionUnion-News
2001-10-10"Gold Bug" sheds light on how some gold deposits formedSpace Daily
2001-10-01Microorganisms process gold oxides into metallic goldMRS Bulletin
2001-09-16Mini MidasesBoston Globe Magazine
2001-09-04Gold streakJerusalem Post
2001-08-30Group of microbes change dissolved gold into solidNational Geographic News
2001-08-25Microbios que valen oroEl Commercio
2001-08-24Gold discovery may have industry applicationsUMass Campus Chronicle
2001-08-24"Gold Bug" sheds new light on an old questionUMass Campus Chronicle
2001-08-22A look at the mystery of Carolina goldThe State
2001-08-07There's gold in that there - salt water?Union-News
2001-07-21GoldbugsThe Economist
2001-04-16Campus NotesSunday Republican
2001-01-25Microbes turn mud into electricityUMass Campus Chronicle
2000-08-15Gas wars: microbes fight water and soil pollutionCNN
2000-08-11Putting microbes to work at gasoline spillsUMass Campus Chronicle
2000-08-11UMass scientists tackle gas spillsDaily Hampshire Gazette
2000-08-09Microbes may control gas spillsGreenfield Recorder
2000-08-09UMass scientists see promise in soil cleanupUnion-News
2000-08-03Putting microbes to work at gasoline spillsUMass press release
2000-04-14Researchers discover key to spurring methane conversionUMass Campus Chronicle
2000-01-01UMass president honors professor from LeydenGreenfield Recorder
2000-01-01UMass builds bugs to eat MTBEMass High Tech
1999-08-30Bright light source monitors bacterial chromium reductionChemical & Engineering News
1999-08-06Microbiology head accorded distinguished professor honorsUMass Campus Chronicle
1998-09-08UMass scientist poses new theory of lifeSunday Republican
1998-09-04Opening windows to the origins of lifeUMass Campus Chronicle
1998-09-04Study casts doubts about chemical processes thought to support subterranean lifeUMass Campus Chronicle
1998-07-18Bacteria at UMass "infect" TV programUnion-News
1994-09-19Chelators use in bioremediation could replace oxygen injectionHazardous Waste News