I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Electromicrobioloy at Aarhus University in Denmark. Previously, I worked at the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi). My research work focuses on electromicrobiology, which studies the electrochemical functionalities of microbes that enable them to generate current. I use electrochemically-active bacteria in bioelectrochemical cells for applications like generation of bioelectricity, bioremediation and biosensing. I am also interested in the metabolic and physiological studies of cable bacteria.
My Publications:
1 Aiyer, K.S. and Doyle, L.E. (2021) Capturing the signal of weak electricigens: a worthy endeavour. Trends in Biotechnology. 10.1016/j.tibtech.2021.10.002
2 Aiyer, K.S. (2021) Synergistic effects in a microbial fuel cell between co-cultures and a photosynthetic alga Chlorella vulgaris improve performance. Heliyon 7, e05935
3 Aiyer, K.S. and Vijayakumar, B.S. (2020) A selection strategy for enhancing exoelectrogenic consortium towards improved power generation in microbial fuel cells. Int. J. Energy Res. DOI: 10.1002/er.6154
4 Aiyer, K.S. (2020) Recovery of chromium, copper and vanadium combined with electricity generation in two-chambered microbial fuel cells. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 367
5 Aiyer, K.S. et al. (2020) Dye reduction-based electron-transfer activity monitoring assay for assessing microbial electron transfer activity of microbial fuel cell inocula. J. Environ. Sci. 96, 171–177
6 Aiyer, K.S. (2020) How does electron transfer occur in microbial fuel cells? World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 36, 19
7 Aiyer, K.S. and Vijayakumar, B.S. (2019) Screening sediment samples used as anolytes in microbial fuel cells for microbial electron transfer activity using DREAM assay. Biotechnol. Lett. 41, 979–985
8 Aiyer, K.S. and Vijayakumar, B.S. (2019) An improvised microtiter dish biofilm assay for non-invasive biofilm detection on microbial fuel cell anodes and studying biofilm growth conditions. Brazilian J. Microbiol. 50, 769–775
9 Aiyer, K.S. et al. (2019) Assessing Activity of Antimicrobial Agents and Screening Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Through DREAM Assay. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 188, 1158–1167
10 Aiyer, K.S. et al. (2018) The enigma of biofilms. Curr. Sci. 115, 204–205
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