Rewiring Microbes and Making Redox Enzymes Run Backwards: Applications of Electrochemistry to Microbiology for Energy Applications

Redox reactions are at the core of bioenergetic transformations, and creating new electron transfer pathways or exploiting existing redox catalysts in novel settings is essential to the development of biologically based alternative energy pathways. This talk will start by describing new electrochemical techniques to probe the mechanisms of redox enzymes. Applications to a number of bioenergetically relevant enzymes such as photosynthetic proteins and hydrogen generating enzymes will then be presented.