Neerja Zambare

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

0000-0002-8884-5096

Projects

Are Calcite Nanoparticles or Organics Causing Autofluorescence of Microbially Produced Calcium Carbonate Precipitates?

Lead Institution

Montana State University

Principal Investigator

Robin Gerlach

Project type

Limited Scope

Microbially induced mineralization is a broad field of research that investigates the precipitation of minerals induced by the presence or activity of microorganisms. Specifically, Microbially…

The role of microbes in biomineral polymorph selection

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Alice Dohnalkova

Biologically precipitated minerals are commonly present in very close association with biomineralizing microbes. Microbe-mineral interactions are complex in that they are often reciprocal in nature…

Deciphering interactions hypothesized to lead to high productivity in high pH-high alkalinity phototrophically driven microbial communities

Lead Institution

Montana State University

Principal Investigator

Robin Gerlach

Project type

FICUS Research

Developing algal-based biofuels and bioproducts is one of the goals of the Department of Energy-Bioenergy Technology Office (DOE-BETO). The work proposed here focuses on an algal strain, tentatively…