Final Report for Award #0006731. Modeling, Patterning and Evolving Syntrophic Communities that Link Fermentation to Metal Reduction

Technical Report · Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1194727· OSTI ID:1194727

Marx, Christopher J. ^[1]

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1. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

This project has developed and combined mathematical models, multi-species consortia, and spatially structured environments as an approach for studying metabolic exchange in communities like the ones between fermenters and metal reducers. We have developed novel, broadly-applicable tools for following community dynamics, come to a better understanding of both sugar and lactate-utilization in S. oneidensis, the interactions between carbon and mineral availability, and have a methodology for cell printing to match with spatiotemporal models of consortia metabolism.

• Research Organization: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• Contributing Organization: Boston University; University of Albany; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• DOE Contract Number: SC0006731
• OSTI ID: 1194727
• Report Number(s): DE-SC0006731
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English