Invited Presentations
2005. "Extremophiles: Living on the Edge” presented to the Department of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
2004. "Iron-eating Bacteria: Attack of Insoluble Fe(III) Oxides" presented to the Department of Biological Sciences, Univeristy of Montana, Missoula, MT.
2004. "Environmental Sensing and Response by Iron Respiring Geobacter" presented at the 104th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, New Orleans, LA.
2003. "Iron-eating Bacteria: Attack of Solid Iron by Geobacter species" presented to the Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
2002. "Interactions of Geobacter with Insoluble Fe(III) and Mn(IV) Oxides" presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2002. "Iron-eating Bacteria: Microbial Interactions with Insoluble Iron" presented to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
2002. "Iron-Eating Bacteria: Attack of a Solid Substrate" presented at the 2nd Microbiology Departmental Retreat, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
2001. "Differential Response of the Dissimilatory Fe(III)-Reducer, Geobacter metallireducens, to Growth on Soluble vs. Insoluble Fe(III)" presented at the 9th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2001. "A Genomic Approach to the Anaerobic Bioremediation of Metal and Petroleum Contamination" presented at the 9th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2001. "The Importance of Metal Reduction" presented at the OECD Workshop during the 9th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2001. "Xtremophiles: Living on the Edge" presented at the Astrobiology Teacher Enhancement Workshop at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Conference Participation
Lynn, J. and S. E. Childers. 2004. Characterization of Microbial Selenium Reduction in Southeastern Idaho. Poster presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Childers, S. E., R. Glaven and D. Lovley. 2004. OmpB, a novel putative metal-binding outer membrane protein that is essential for Fe(III) oxide reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens. Poster presented at the 104th General ASM Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Childers, S. E., T. Mehta, S. Ciufo and D. R. Lovley. 2003. Specific requirement for a general secretion pathway system for the reduction of insoluble, but not soluble Fe(III) by Geobacter sulfurreducens. Poster presented at the 103rd General ASM Meeting, Washington, DC.
Metha, T., K. O'Neill, M. Coppi, S. E. Childers and D. R. Lovley. 2003. Isolation and functional analysis of two outer membrane c-type cytochromes in the dissimilatory metal reducer Geobacter sulfurreducens. Poster presented at the 103rd General ASM Meeting, Washington, DC.
Lipton, M., S. Childers, K. Hixson, L. Pasa-Tolic, R. Smith and D. Lovley. Novel strategy for identifying outer-membrane proteins associated with Fe(III) oxide reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens. Poster presented at the 103rd General ASM Meeting, Washington, DC.
Childers, S. E., T. Mehta, J. Nicoll, A. Kornevsky, T. Beveridge and D. R. Lovley. 2003. Biomolecular mechanisms for microbe-Fe(III) oxide interactions in Geobacter species. Poster presented at the NABIR PI Meeting, Warrenton, VA.
Childers, S. E. and D. R. Lovley. 2002. Novel strategy for accessing Fe(III) and Mn(IV) oxides in Geobacter metallireducens. Poster presented at the 102nd General ASM Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
Mehta, T., S. E. Childers and D. R. Lovley. 2002. Geobacter sulfurreducens requires pili in order to reduce Fe(III) oxide. 102nd General ASM Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
Nicoll, J. S., S. E. Childers and D. R. Lovley. 2002. Role of a Fur homolog in the dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens. 102nd General ASM Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
Childers, S. E. and D. R. Lovley. 2001. Motility and chemotaxis in the dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducer Geobacter metallireducens. Poster presented at the 101st General ASM Meeting, Orlando, FL.
T. Mehta, S. E. Childers, S.A. Ciufo and D. R. Lovley. 2001. Expression of pili in Geobacter species in response to the presence of insoluble Fe(III) oxide. 101st General ASM Meeting, Orlando, FL.