I Created an Oil Spill in My House

Bacteria are often painted as our adversaries, but when it comes to oil spills, toxic chemicals, and radioactive waste, they could be what save us from ourselves.

#microbes #bacteria #oilspills

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver

Writer/Host:
Sam Jones, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Paige Novak, PhD,
Brianne Raccor, PhD
Gemma Reguera, PhD

Sources:
Deepwater Horizon – BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/deepwater-horizon-bp-gulf-mexico-oil-spill

Bacteria used to clean at-home oil spill (video demo)
https://www.grainger.com/product/ULTRATECH-Product-Type-Granular-Oil-6XMG7

We still don’t know all of the impacts of the BP oil spill
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bp-oil-spill-still-dont-know-effects-decade-later

Adaptive synthesis of a rough lipopolysaccharide in Geobacter sulfurreducens for metal reduction and detoxification
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.00964-21

A review in the current developments of genus Dehalococcoides, its consortia and kinetics for bioremediation options of contaminated groundwater
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468203917301668

Degradation of Deepwater Horizon oil buried in a Florida beach influenced by tidal pumping
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X17309037?via%3Dihub

Diverse, rare microbial taxa responded to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea hydrocarbon plume
https://www.nature.com/articles/ismej2015121

Computer modeling could help chlorine-hungry bacteria break down toxic waste
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2007/06/helping-chlorine-eating-bacteria-clean-toxic-waste

How Microbes Clean Up Our Environmental Messes
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a7176/how-microbes-will-clean-up-our-messes/

Extracellular reduction of uranium via Geobacter conductive pili as a protective cellular mechanism
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21896750/

Characterization of mercury bioremediation by transgenic bacteria expressing metallothionein and polyphosphate kinase
https://bmcbiotechnol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6750-11-82

It looks like microbes can help clean up mining pollution
https://massivesci.com/articles/microbes-pollution-mining-cleanup/

Breathing' bacteria clean up toxic waste: Civil engineering professor Paige Novak and her colleagues rise to the challenge
https://cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/breathing-bacteria-clean-toxic-waste

Microbial communities clean toxic waste and generate useful chemicals
https://biodesign.asu.edu/news/microbial-communities-clean-toxic-waste-and-generate-useful-chemicals

Deepwater Horizon and the Rise of the Omics
https://eos.org/features/deepwater-horizon-and-the-rise-of-the-omics

These bacteria clean up radioactive waste
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2021/bacteria-clean-up-radioactive-waste

Cleaning Up Electronic Waste (E-Waste)
https://www.epa.gov/international-cooperation/cleaning-electronic-waste-e-waste

Risk Management for Trichloroethylene (TCE)
https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-management-trichloroethylene-tce

Meet the Microbes Eating the Gulf Oil Spill [Slide Show]
https://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/gulf-oil-eating-microbes-slide-show/

Radiation-eating bacteria could make nuclear waste safer
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431211-300-radiation-eating-bacteria-could-make-nuclear-waste-safer/

Electrified Bacterial Filaments Remove Uranium from Groundwater
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electrified-bacterial-remove-uranium-groundwater/

Molecular structure of different petroleum hydrocarbon representatives
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Molecular-structure-of-different-petroleum-hydrocarbon-representatives_fig1_316965728

Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane, Propane, and Butane by Marine Microbes: A Mini Review
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02056/full

Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria for the Remediation of Oil Pollution Under Aerobic Conditions: A Perspective Analysis
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02885/full

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