Microbial biofilms in the environmentJulie MarescaCivil & Environmental Engineering College of Engineering
September 19, 2011
Maresca: Where I’ve been
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BA, Biology, University of Chicago 1999
PhD, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Penn State University 2007
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Postdoc, Civil & Environmental
Engineering, MIT
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Maresca: Microbial biofilms
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• Most microbes in the environment are attached to surfaces
• Nutrient acquisition• Cell-cell communication• Metabolic cooperation
• Microbial biofilms on biochar particles (Smyrna, DE)
• Interspecies interactions in coastal biofilms: naturally occurring microbes colonizing an artificial substrate (Salem, MA)
• Interspecies communication on sulfur-containing minerals (Sulfolobus solfataricus)
• Microbial effects on weathered concrete (with Thomas Schumacher, CEE)
Maresca: Microbial biofilms
Maresca: Microbial biofilms
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