In silico Geobacter sulfurreducens metabolism and its representation in reactive transport models

The development of a dynamic cell model of the abundant Geobacter sulfurreducens has shown that a kinetic representation of key components of cell metabolism has matched microbial growth dynamics seen in chemostat experiments. The studies have shown that simplified model representations of microbial dynamics in the subsurface that depended on extracellular conditions are derived by parameterizing emerging properties of the kinetic cell model.