Microbial Metal Interactions

Hello, scientific community! Welcome to our research group BIO103 led by Dr Mohamed L. Merroun (University of Granada). We are updating our scientific activities. Stay tuned! :)

At the #FEMS2025 Congress in Milan🇮🇹, @crispopri presented innovative findings on the microbiology of deep geological repositories for nuclear waste☢️, highlighting microbial behavior in long-term storage environments.

This week, @maarmh and Lidia are attending the #Goldschmidt2025 Conference in Prague! They’re presenting exciting new research on the microbiology of deep geological nuclear waste repositories, shedding light on how microbes behave in extreme, long-term storage environments. 🦠☢️

Trung Le Duc from Liberec - PhD exchange student:"Grateful for a 3-month stay at @CanalUGR under Prof. Mohamed L. Merroun's supervision. I worked on microbial interactions with concrete and heavy metal bioremediation. Thanks to the @SURRI_2023 project and the whole research team"

Congrats to our PhD student @lidiator37 for winning 3rd prize for Best Oral Presentation at the XXX Congress of the Spanish Society for Microbiology (@SEMicrobiologia)! 🎉 Her talk focused on the role of fungi in metal corrosion of containers in Deep Geological Repositories

Last week, two of our PhD students (@lidiator37 and @esther_peula) participated in the XXX Congress of Spanish Society for Microbiology (@SEMicrobiologia) in Jaén. It was a great chance to learn, share their work and connect with researchers from across the field! 🔬🧫

Because science divulgation is so much fun! Discover bentonites, the heroes of radioactive waste repositories scienceinschool.org/article/2025/b… vía @embl

🚀 Day 2 of AI in Science course is kicking off! Organized by the ECR Council (Kim Sennhenn, Francesca Tugnoli, Antonio Newman) within @RadoNormEU, in collaboration with @CanalUGR (Prof. Mohamed Merroun). Thanks to the AI Granada Foundation for connecting us with top experts!

🔬 Big progress in our lab! Our PhD student, Lidia Generelo, has completed a short stay at @FFision to set up an experiment. This is part of #InCoManD WP @EJP_EURAD, an European project on the DGR of radioactive waste—one step closer to safer long-term storage!💡

📢 New paper published!🎉 We explored the long-term effect of bentonite compaction on bacterial viability. Our findings reveal how microbial communities can remain active for years 🔬🦠 Check it out! 👀authors.elsevier.com/a/1kdLT15DSlZF… #bentonite #DGR #microbiology

🚀 New Paper Alert 🚀 The final PhD chapter of our college @BioMMartinez has been published 🎉 Check the Research Article here 👉🏼 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWqJB8cd44Bh #NewPublicatiom #Microbiology #NuclearWaste

🆕 #CongresoCientífico 'Concienciación del problema de la resistencia a antibióticos' 📢 Para estudiantes de grado y posgrado 🏢 @fcienciasugr  🗓️ 27 de enero ⏰ 16:00 h

Truly honored to keep contributing to the #InCoManD project within the #EURAD2 program From Jan 20-22, we gathered in Paris organized by @Andra_France to align plans for the first 2 years. I represented @microlab103 (@CanalUGR) & presented our work in collaboration with @FFision

From January 20th to 22nd, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Merroun and @maarmh attended the #InCoManD meeting (part of the #EURAD2 program) in Paris , organized by @Andra_France They presented the work plan established for the first two years by @CanalUGR in collaboration with @FFision 🤝🏼🌟

This week, our postdoctoral researcher @maarmh and PhD student Lidia Generelo presented their work at the #SEMSEA2025 National Congress in the beautiful city of Seville 🌞 It's always a pleasure to meet and learn from experts! #SEMSEA2025 #Research #microorganisms #bentonite