Publications & Talks
Journal articles
Mukherjee, D., & Doyle, L. E. (2025). Electrochemical enrichment of a community of weak electricigens and characterisation of three halotolerant electroactive isolates: Micrococcus sp. YH-1, Gordonia sp. RH-1 and Stutzerimonas sp. CH-1, Electrochimica Acta, 510, 145350.
Grover, S. and Doyle, L.E. 2024. Advanced Electrode Materials for Microbial Extracellular Electron Transfer, Trends in Chemistry, 6(3), 144-158.
Aiyer, K., Mukherjee, D. and Doyle, L.E. 2023. A Weak Electricigen-Based Bioelectrochemical Sensor for Real-Time Monitoring of Chemical Pollutants in Water, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 6(10), 4105–4110.
Aiyer, K. and Doyle, L.E. 2023. Extracellular Electron Transfer of Weak Electricigens in the Presence of a Competing Electron Acceptor, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 170 055501.
Mahar, N.S., Aiyer, K., Juwayria, Doyle, L.E., Gupta, I. 2023. Draft Genome Sequence of a Delftia sp., a Member of an Electroactive Community Enriched from Wastewater from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, Microbiology Resource Announcements, e01121-22.
Aiyer, K. and Doyle, L.E. 2022. Capturing the signal of weak electricigens: a worthy endeavour, Trends in Biotechnology, 40(5), 564-575.
Keogh, D., Lam, L.N., Doyle, L.E., Matysik, A., Pavagadhi, S., Shivshankar, U., Low, P.M., Dale, J.L., Song, Y., Ng, S.P., Boothroyd, C.B., Dunny, G.M., Swarup, S., Williams, R.B.H., Marsili, E., Kline, K.A. 2018. Extracellular Electron Transfer Powers Enterococcus faecalis Biofilm Metabolism, mBio, 9(2), e00626-17.
[Featured as a research highlight by Nature (Du Toit, A. 2018. Passing on the electrons. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 16, 394)]
Doyle, L.E., Marsili, E. 2018. Weak electricigens: a new avenue for bioelectrochemical research, Bioresource Technology, 258, 354-364.
Doyle, L.E., Williams, R.B.H., Rice, S.A., Marsili, E., Lauro, F.M. 2018. Draft genome sequence of Enterobacter sp. strain EA-1, an electrochemically-active microorganism isolated from tropical sediment, Genome Announcements, 6(9), e00111-18.
Doyle, L.E., Yung, P. Y., Mitra, S. D., Wuertz, S., Williams, R. B., Lauro, F. M., Marsili, E. 2017. Electrochemical and genomic analysis of novel electroactive isolates obtained via potentiostatic enrichment from tropical sediment, Journal of Power Sources, 356, 539-548.
Artyushkova, K., Roizman, D., Santoro, C., Doyle, L. E., Fatima Mohidin, A., Atanassov, P., Marsili, E. 2016. Anodic biofilms as the interphase for electroactive bacterial growth on carbon veil, Biointerphases, 11(3), 031013. [Cover of the journal, Feature Paper and Editor’s Pick, September 2016]
Doyle, L.E., Marsili, E. 2015. Methods for enrichment of novel electrochemically-active microorganisms, Bioresource Technology, 195, 273-282.
Seviour, T.*, Doyle, L. E.*, Lauw, S. J. L., Hinks, J., Rice, S. A., Nesatyy, V. J., Webster, R. D., Kjelleberg, S., Marsili, E. 2015. Voltammetric profiling of redox-active metabolites expressed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa for diagnostic purposes, Chemical Communications, 51(18), 3789-3792. *Co-first authors
Book chapters
Aiyer, K. and Doyle, L.E. Microbial Fuel Cells: Exploring Electrochemical, Biological and Applied Aspects. In: Banks, C. (Ed.) Royal Society of Chemistry Specialist Periodical Reports Electrochemistry Volume 17, Royal Society of Chemistry (In Press).
Wasnik, H., Gandhi, R., Doyle, L.E., Gupta, I. Soil microbiome of Cold Deserts and its biotechnologically useful adaptations for life on Earth and beyond, with a detailed case study on the Atacama desert microbiome. In: Gupta, P. & Shahnawaz, M. (Eds.) Soil Microbiome of the Cold Habitats: Trends and Applications, CRC Press-Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge (In Press).
Doyle, L. E., Marsili, E. 2018. The Dynamics and Characterization of Electroactive Biofilms. In: Wandelt, K., (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry: Surface Science and Electrochemistry. 7, 524–528. Elsevier. ISBN 9780128097397.
Presentations
Presentations
Invited talks
School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Ireland, March 2022, “Electroactive microorganisms: hiding in plain sight”.
Centre for BioSystems Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), February 2022, “Electroactive microorganisms: small currents with big potential”.
Entrepreneurship Ideas for Biotechnology Researchers and Students (EIBRS-2021), School of Biotechnology, BHU Varanasi, October 2021, “Harnessing electricity from microorganisms: fundamentals & applications”.
International Webinar on Science and Engineering for Nature Conservation (World Environment Day), JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, June, 2020. “Electric Bacteria”.
Conferences
I-CONECT 2023 (International Conference on Nanomaterials for Electro-Catalysis Technology), Delhi, India, March 2023. Electroactive microorganisms in bioelectrochemical systems: from enrichment to application. (Oral-invited)
Electromicrobiology 2019, Aarhus, Denmark, March 2019. “Deep-sea pressure affects the redox potential of flavins and cytochromes in Shewanella”. (Oral)
ISME17 (International Society for Microbial Ecology), Leipzig, Germany, August 2018. Hydrostatic pressure affects extracellular electron transfer in the deep sea. (Poster)
SCELSE Annual Scientific Retreat, Singapore, November 2017. “Microbially-Mediated Energy Transformations in the Deep Sea”. (Oral)
228th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Arizona, USA, October 2015. “Enrichment of Novel Electroactive Bacteria from Sediments via Potentiostatic Growth”. (Oral)
Singapore Interactive Meeting on Microbial Ecology Research (SIMMER), Singapore, August 2014. “Enrichment of novel electroactive bacteria from equatorial climate sediments via potentiostatic growth and subsequent characterisation via voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and metagenomics”. (Oral)