An article in Scientific American on the Microbe-Mineral Atlas and what it means for biomining.
Esteban Gazel and I talk with longtime friend of the lab Dan Goodwin on climate biotech on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Talk with Dustin and Daniel of Rare Earth Exchanges on YouTube.
An article in the Cornell Chronicle that features on our work on engineering microorganisms to mine rare earth elements, discovery of new non-acid mediated mechanisms for rare earth extraction, and CO2 sequestration.
An article in the Christian Science Monitor that features on our work on mining rare earth elements.
An article in the Cornell Chronicle on our work with with Tobias Hanrath and Peng Chen on semiconductor-microbe hybrids first reported in PNAS.
Live stream of the Carl Sagan Institute's symposium for Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. Buz speaks from ≈ 2:25 to 2:38, but the whole thing is worth watching.
An article in the Cornell Chronicle on our new Microbe-Mineral Atlas project.
An article in the Cornell Chronicle on David Specht and TJ Sheppard's work on engineering natural competence (DNA uptake) into Vibrio natriegens.
An article in the Cornell Chronicle on Sean Medin and Stacie Dressel's work on engineering Vibrio natriegens for selective rare earth biosorption.
A technology feature in Nature on rare earth biomining.
An interview on NPR's Marketplace Tech on rare earth separations using engineered microbes.
An article covering work by Peng Chen in Cornell Chemistry (and us) on how Ralstonia eutropha converts CO2 and electricity to bioplastic on the DOE Office of Science.
An article about how Barstow Lab Alum Alexa Schmitz and grad student Sean Medin commercialized rare earth biomining tech developed in our lab on the Cornell Chronicle.
An article covering work by Peng Chen in Cornell Chemistry (and us) on how Ralstonia eutropha converts CO2 and electricity to bioplastic on the Cornell Chronicle.
An article covering the recent visit to our lab by Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado to our lab by the Cornell Chronicle.
An article covering Alexa's Activate fellowship, and starting REEgen at the Cornell Praxis Center by the Cornell Chronicle.
Here's a great piece on Alexa's Rising Women Innovator award from Cornell Tech Licensing by the Cornell Chronicle. And here's a link to a video about it on YouTube.
Here's a great piece on our rare earth element bio-mining work by the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining.
Here's a great piece on our rare earth element bio-mining work by Chris Dawson that originally appeared in Cornell Engineering Magazine.
Here's a story in the Chronicle about an award we received from ARPA-E for rare earth element bio-mining in the Cornell Chronicle.
Here's another piece written by Blaine Friedlander on Farshid's theory of electromicrobial production that appeared in the Cornell Chronicle.
Here's a story about an award we received (in collaboration with Peng Chen in Cornell Chemistry, who's the lead professor) in the Cornell Chronicle.
We're quoted by Carl Zimmer from the New York Times.
Here's a piece written by Krishna Ramanujan on Farshid's review of some of the fundamentals of using microbes to store electricity electromicrobial production that appeared in the Cornell Chronicle.
You can find more about the challenges of sustainable energy and proposed solutions in our review article in Chem and in a Q&A piece written by Princeton Chemistry's science writer, Tien Nguyen, on the Princeton Chemistry website.
You can find out more about Knockout Sudoku in a great popular piece written by Princeton Chemistry's science writer, Tien Nguyen, on the Princeton Chemistry website.
We are big fans of using preprints to speed up the dissemination of scientific information. Here's Buz talking about preprints on an eLife webinar.