JamieLustermans

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow working on cable bacteria at Geobiology, UAntwerp

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Yesterday was the opening of #ISMET 9. Very happy to have already met so many interesting people in only an evening. Excited for what the program today holds :D

[Kartik Aiyer @kartiksaiyer]

If you're interested in reading the "behind the paper" story of how we discovered this microbe, have a look at our blog post here: https://t.co/6CdKMo6Jo2
Sometimes, new discoveries begin not with a grand project, but with an unexpected observation while chasing another story. This one started with cable bacteria and enthusiastic friends. It ended with an interesting bacterium with an unconventional metabolism—and reminds us that nature still holds many surprises.
@CEMAarhus @BiologyAarhus

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Want to hear more about this amazing bacterium? Come to my presentation @FEMSmicro 2025 in Milan next week!

[Kartik Aiyer @kartiksaiyer]

We isolated a new electroactive microbe from the sediment oxic-anoxic interface and were surprised to see it respiring Fe and O2 simultaneously. Thrilled to share the publication now: https://t.co/qkcHHPpyQV
Sincere thanks to coauthors @JLustermans, Naja and Leonid. @ISMETsociety

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

New electroactive Gram+ microbe ✔️
New simultaneous Fe and O2 respiring 🦠✔️
New hybrid G+/G- mechanism for EET ✔️
New manuscript @NatureComms ✔️
Very happy that we could publish something like this with friends @kartiksaiyer, Naja, Leonid Digel

[Kartik Aiyer @kartiksaiyer]

We isolated a new electroactive microbe from the sediment oxic-anoxic interface and were surprised to see it respiring Fe and O2 simultaneously. Thrilled to share the publication now: https://t.co/qkcHHPpyQV
Sincere thanks to coauthors @JLustermans, Naja and Leonid. @ISMETsociety

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Jesper R. Van Dijk defending his PhD today on #cablebacteria and their life cycle. Proud to say that he created a comprehensive work that furthered our knowledge of the #cablebacteria in sometimes unexpected directions

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

@Radair86 @BGR We are working on this ever since the first time the #cablebacteria were published, in 2012. It is a very interesting idea but unfortunately comes with many as of yet unresolved issues that we are also investigating.
More info on our website: https://t.co/V945zlmS43

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Working on my manuscript while eating home made oliebollen and listening to the #Top2000

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Dr. Anwar Hiralal just defended his PhD about an incredible genomic adventure about #cablebacteria at #Uantwerpen.
Again, many congratulations @anwar_hiralal

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

That one moment where you go to work and think "such a beautiful place I work at". Before you sit in an old building all day ;) #CampusDrieEiken #Uantwerpen For anyone who reads this, do you also have a picture that makes you feel like that at work?

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Bent Smets defending his PhD on the #cablebacteria conductor (both the longest and the best biological electron conducting structure known to date!), now not less miraculous but a little more known. @UAntwerpen

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Tinder with #cablebacteria, a great talk by @Jespervdijk during #pintofscience.
Interested, curious? Look them up on https://t.co/V945zlmS43

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

@CEMAarhus @vramya90 @novonordiskfond That is amazing @vramya90, many congrats 👏! And what a cool cake

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

I am extremely excited to share that I was awarded a #marieskłodowskacurieactions last week for my proposal: ENTER at #UAntwerp. During my MSCA fellowship, I will work with @FilipMeysman on discovering what is happening in #cablebacteria communities.
https://t.co/tfHSFKAm25

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Congratulations @DigelLeonid on defending an amazing thesis on #cablebacteria

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

It is weekend, but I could not resist thinking about this. We tested some techniques at our colleagues @VUBrussel on our #cablebacteria (these are the long black lines) and they decided to become a jellyfish. Clear evolution 🤣

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

@CEMAarhus @jabifon @BiologyAarhus @AarhusUni_int Congratulations Alexis @jafb

Congratulations @jabifon 🎊 👏 💐

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Endlessly enjoyable talk of Stuart Lindsey (a physicist, not a biologist) who ends with a visual explanation of DNA polymerase activity like I've never seen before at the Electromicrobiology 2023 conference @CEMAarhus

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

Beautiful first day at my new job as #postdoc with Filip Meysman, working on #electric #cablebacteria (https://t.co/tXOVZ98Dve)

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

Cable bacteria are long, "filamentous bacteria that conduct electrons via internal wires."

New study: Anaerobes — in lakes and ponds — swarm around these cable bacteria & give electrons for respiration. Cut the cable, lose the microbes.

Beautiful. 📽️

https://t.co/vgP9NAL89f

[JamieLustermans @JLustermans]

@NikoMcCarty We actually suspect they are aerobic bacteria that "flock" around the #cablebacteria in an anoxic environment.
We also found that this phenomenon happens incredibly often
https://t.co/e2cBw5GTFV