We (Erik Björn, Stefan Bertilsson, Anne Soerensen, Jarone Pinhassi) are recruiting two Post Docs to a project on methyl-Hg cycling in oxygen deficient seas: one post doc in Hg biogeochemistry umu.se/en/work-with-u…, and one in Hg environmental microbiology umu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jo…

Microbial biosynthesis of thiol compounds: implications for speciation, cellular uptake and methylation of Hg(II) | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Super happy to share our preprint about mercury methylation in the oxygen-depleted water of the Baltic Sea! A work including Erik Björn Moritz Buck Andrea G Bravo Stefan Bertilsson Please read it :) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper just accepted: Anaerobic guilds responsible for mercury methylation in boreal wetlands of varied trophic status serving as either a methylmercury source or sink sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Our paper about potential mercury methylators in Baltic Sea water was accepted today! That was very nice to work on this project with many super good scientists incl. Erik Björn Moritz Buck Stefan Bertilsson Andrea G Bravo frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Please have a look :)

Excited to announce the release of the Hg-MATE-Db: Hg-cycling Microorganisms in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems Database - a community effort that was led by Eric Capo Benjamin Peterson & me doi.org/10.25573/serc.… (1/5)

9 nine days left to apply for our post-doc position at Umeå Univ (Sweden) to work on #MeHg formation in coastal systems with Erik Björn Stefan Bertilsson Andrea G Bravo and others. Join our group and come to have fun with us! umu.se/en/work-with-u…

See our new paper on interplays between Hg(II) speciation, thiol metabolism, and cell physiology controlling methylmercury formation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

See our (Emily Seelen, @ZosiaBaumann, Robert Mason, and more) new paper on how DOM associated thiols determine merhylmercury bioavailability in aquatic systems. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Here Emily Seelen Erik Björn et al. demonstrate that the concentration of thiol compounds associated with dissolved organic matter controls the bioavailability of methylmercury, a strong neurotoxin, in aquatic systems. nature.com/articles/s4146…

See new paper by Chuxian LI, Kevin Bishop et al. on mercury deposition and transformations in peatland. nature.com/articles/s4146…

New findings from our department shed light on the crucial role that dissolved organic matter plays in regulating the bioavailability of mercury. Read more here: today.uconn.edu/2023/12/mercur…

Molecular composition of organic matter controls methylmercury formation in boreal lakes nature.com/articles/ncomm…

Terrestrial discharges mediate trophic shifts and enhance methylmercury accumulation in estuarine biota advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1…

Ulf Skyllberg, Jeffra Schaefer and I are announcing an exciting PhD position to study mechanisms for Hg uptake in anaerobic bacteria. umu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jo…

New paper out showing the importance of methanogens in limiting MeHg accumulation in alder swamps. Mechanisms of Methyl Mercury Net Degradation in Alder Swamps: The Role of Methanogens and Abiotic Processes pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…