8/2023
Very grateful to the DOE for supporting my Early Career Research Proposal! Funding for 2 students and a postdoc to look at electron transfer reactions between microbes and redox active surfaces (minerals, electrodes and other microbes!)
8/2023
7/2023
Congratulations to Linda Vu for a successful masters defense! Off to work in Baltimore!
6/2023
Leah Trutschel successfully defended her PhD. My first student leaving the nest, on to the EPA!
4/2023
Earth Day at Riengiest!
3/2023
Officially funded NSF-Career grant in Ocean Sciences. Studying cool marine sediment microbes and the role of EET in their ecology!
12/2022
Our first Rowe Lab Party since 2020!
9/2022
Leah picked up this year’s Best Presentation award at the Midwest Geobiology meeting! Congrats!
7/2022
Off to Honolulu to give a Keynote in Microbe Mineral Interactions at the 2022 Goldschmidt Conference! Thanks to Clara Chan and Cassandra Marnocha for organizing a great session!
12/2021
AGU and Subsurface Life here I come. This will be my first talk on our Ney Springs work! Thanks to Beth Orcutt for the invite!
11/2021
Probably my last in person C-DEBI meeting (https://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/). So thankful for their support through the years and excited to see what they do as COBRA
9/2021
Off to Midwest Geobiology in Indianapolis! First in person conference in a few years!
7/2021
Huge congratulations to Josh Sacket on Receiving a NSF-Ocean Science postdoctoral fellowship! He is going to do great things with electron transfer in marine sediment microbial communities!
10/7/20
My favorite meeting of the year is going Virtual! Thanks to the organizers for keeping this going in the midst of a pandemic!
7/9/2020
Attending AMS CUE (Conference for Undergraduate Educators).
6/26/2020
Josh and I presenting at Virtual Goldschmidt 2020 this afternoon. Really wish it was still in Honolulu, Hi.
6/8/2020
Congratulation to Leah on receiving a Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology for her Thesis work in Ney Springs!
9/8/2019
Rowe lab teaching students about Bioluminescence at the Cincinnati Museum Center, hope the students had as much fun as we did!
Glow sticks, laser pointers and grad students!
6/15/2019
Back in the field looking for High pH sulfur and methane oxidizers at Ney’s spring! Now off to New Hampshire for the first Bioelectronics Gordon Conference–bioelectronics meets environmental microbiology.
4/22/2019
Big month for Undergraduate Research Presentations! The Ohio Branch ASM meeting was one of the best undergrad accessible conferences I’ve been too. Students presented there and at the UC Undergraduate Scholarly Showcase.
10/10-10/12/2018
The best North American ISMET I’ve been to to date! Brought the hole lab to celebrate microbes electric!
7/21/2018
Off to give my first Gordon Conference Seminar in Maine at the conference on C1 metabolism!
6/12/2018
Thanks for the invite to give a Microseminar!
1/1/2018
Happy New Year in a new city and a new job! Rowe lab founded in 2018!
10/16/2017
Surf Round 2! More electrocultivation underground….
5/8/2017
SURFing South Dakota! So many sulfur oxidizers! (pictures soon)
3/9/2017
Giving the C-DEBI neworked speaker talk this month! Tune in or check it out when you can (http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/outputs-resources/networked-speaker-series/)
2/2017
Back at SURF to set up an electrocultivation experiment (like the Catalina experiments, but a mile underground), where we have access to sulfidic ground water, electricity and the internet!
12/2016
Quick trip to Denmark to meet with colleges on the Electrogas project, and then to South Dakota to the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF)! Found a cool cite for looking at sulfur oxidation in the deep subsurface…
7/2016
Rock eating microbes! See our work featured in Quanta and The Atlantic.
6/2016
TN-Seq here I come! Spending 10 days at University of Minnesota with Jeff and Ben to kick off our collaboration with the Marinobacter Mafia. And you know the beer will be good…
4/2015
Thanks to Moh and Jan for nominating me for the WISE Postdoctoral Merit award!
8/2015
Off to Japan to work with Akihiro Okamoto on our alkaliphilic electrode reducing microbe!
As of 6/2015,
Joined the NASA Astrobiology institute, Life Underground team based at USC to start looking at electron transfer in methanogens with cytochromes, still working with on polishing my electrochemical techniques!
2/2016
My first mention in popular press…. (not counting the Maui News!)
Not sure how i feel about my bacteria being compared with aliens, but…
I’ll let you be the judge, read it here.