Aaron J. Hinz

This study shows that metal-binding ligands, not redox-active metabolites, drive microbially-induced corrosion of cobalt, with oxygen initiating oxidation and unknown metabolites preventing cobalt oxide precipitation.

The paper develops a Golden Gate assembly system for constructing Escherichia coli bioreporters that detect mercury and arsenic under aerobic and anaerobic conditions.

The paper identifies that both epistasis and physical linkage can drive correlated evolution detected computationally under antibiotic selection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.