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Kelly P. Nevin is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Environmental Science, Medicine, and Engineering, with a focus on subfields such as Environmental Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Epidemiology.

Themes central to Nevin's work include Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Metal Extraction and Bioleaching, Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, and Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors.

Frequent collaborators with Nevin include Trevor L. Woodard, Derek R. Lovley, Toshiyuki Ueki, Stephen S. Nonnenmann, and David J. F. Walker.

Nevin has published articles in several scientific venues, among which the most frequent are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The ISME Journal, Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology, and ACS Synthetic Biology.

Selected recent publications by Nevin include the following:

  • Syntrophus conductive pili demonstrate that common hydrogen-donating syntrophs can have a direct electron transfer option, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Microbial biofilms for electricity generation from water evaporation and power to wearables, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Extracellular Electron Exchange Capabilities of Desulfovibrio ferrophilus and Desulfopila corrodens, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • An Escherichia coli Chassis for Production of Electrically Conductive Protein Nanowires, 2020, ACS Synthetic Biology
  • Expressing the Geobacter metallireducens PilA in Geobacter sulfurreducens Yields Pili with Exceptional Conductivity, 2020, UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Dissimilatory Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reduction.

    Derek Lovley

  • Dissimilatory Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reduction.

    Derek R Lovley;Dawn E Holmes;Kelly P Nevin

  • A new model for electron flow during anaerobic digestion: direct interspecies electron transfer to Methanosaeta for the reduction of carbon dioxide to methane

    Amelia-Elena Rotaru;Pravin Malla Shrestha;Fanghua Liu;Minita Shrestha

  • Microbial Electrosynthesis: Feeding Microbes Electricity To Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water to Multicarbon Extracellular Organic Compounds

    Kelly P. Nevin;Trevor L. Woodard;Ashley E. Franks;Zarath M. Summers

  • BIOFILM AND NANOWIRE PRODUCTION LEADS TO INCREASED CURRENT IN GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS FUEL CELLS

    Gemma Reguera;Kelly P. Nevin;Julie S. Nicoll;Sean F. Covalla

  • Tunable metallic-like conductivity in microbial nanowire networks

    Nikhil S. Malvankar;Madeline Vargas;Madeline Vargas;Kelly P. Nevin;Ashley E. Franks

  • Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer between Geobacter metallireducens and Methanosarcina barkeri

    Amelia-Elena Rotaru;Pravin Malla Shrestha;Fanghua Liu;Beatrice Markovaite

  • Promoting direct interspecies electron transfer with activated carbon

    Fanghua Liu;Amelia-Elena Rotaru;Pravin M. Shrestha;Nikhil S. Malvankar

  • Geobacter: The Microbe Electric's Physiology, Ecology, and Practical Applications

    Derek R Lovley;Toshiyuki Ueki;Tian Zhang;Nikhil S Malvankar

  • Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds from Carbon Dioxide Is Catalyzed by a Diversity of Acetogenic Microorganisms

    Kelly P. Nevin;Sarah A. Hensley;Ashley E. Franks;Zarath M. Summers

  • Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biochar

    Shanshan Chen;Amelia-Elena Rotaru;Pravin Malla Shrestha;Nikhil S. Malvankar

  • Cyclic voltammetry of biofilms of wild type and mutant Geobacter sulfurreducens on fuel cell anodes indicates possible roles of OmcB, OmcZ, type IV pili, and protons in extracellular electron transfer

    Hanno Richter;Kelly P. Nevin;Hongfei Jia;Daniel A. Lowy

  • Power output and columbic efficiencies from biofilms of Geobacter sulfurreducens comparable to mixed community microbial fuel cells

    Kelly P Nevin;H. Richter;S. F Covalla;J. P Johnson

  • Microbial Fuel Cells, A Current Review

    Ashley E. Franks;Kelly P. Nevin

  • Selection of a variant of Geobacter sulfurreducens with enhanced capacity for current production in microbial fuel cells.

    Hana Yi;Kelly P. Nevin;Byoung Chan Kim;Ashely E. Franks

  • Anode Biofilm Transcriptomics Reveals Outer Surface Components Essential for High Density Current Production in Geobacter sulfurreducens Fuel Cells

    Kelly P Nevin;Byoung-Chan Kim;Richard H Glaven;Jessica P Johnson

  • Mechanisms for accessing insoluble Fe(III) oxide during dissimilatory Fe(III) reduction by Geothrix fermentans.

    Kelly P. Nevin;Derek R. Lovley

  • Magnetite compensates for the lack of a pilin-associated c-type cytochrome in extracellular electron exchange.

    Fanghua Liu;Fanghua Liu;Amelia-Elena Rotaru;Pravin M. Shrestha;Nikhil S. Malvankar

  • Microarray and genetic analysis of electron transfer to electrodes in Geobacter sulfurreducens

    Dawn E. Holmes;Swades K. Chaudhuri;Kelly P. Nevin;Teena Mehta

  • Carbon cloth stimulates direct interspecies electron transfer in syntrophic co-cultures.

    Shanshan Chen;Amelia-Elena Rotaru;Amelia-Elena Rotaru;Fanghua Liu;Jo Philips

  • Lack of Production of Electron-Shuttling Compounds or Solubilization of Fe(III) during Reduction of Insoluble Fe(III) Oxide by Geobacter metallireducens

    Kelly P. Nevin;Derek R. Lovley

  • Mechanisms for Fe(III) Oxide Reduction in Sedimentary Environments

    Kelly P. Nevin;Derek R. Lovley

  • Improved cathode materials for microbial electrosynthesis

    Tian Zhang;Huarong Nie;Timothy S. Bain;Haiyun Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek R. Lovley
Derek R. Lovley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dawn E. Holmes
Dawn E. Holmes Western New England University
Ashley E. Franks
Ashley E. Franks La Trobe University
Barbara A. Methé
Barbara A. Methé University of Pittsburgh
Mark T. Tuominen
Mark T. Tuominen University of Massachusetts Amherst
Philip E. Long
Philip E. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Karsten Zengler
Karsten Zengler University of California, San Diego
Yaobin Zhang
Yaobin Zhang Dalian University of Technology
John R. Yates
John R. Yates Scripps Research Institute
Aaron D. Peacock
Aaron D. Peacock Microbac Laboratories

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