| Gemma Reguera | |
| Birth Place: | Moreda, Aller, Asturias, Spain |
| Workplaces: | Michigan State University |
| Alma Mater: | Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| Known For: | Electromicrobiology |
| Awards: | Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women from the American Society for Microbiology, Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology |
| Website: | http://reguera.msu.domains |
Gemma Reguera is a Spanish-American microbiologist and professor at Michigan State University. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology and was elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2019. She is the recipient of the 2022 Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women from the American Society for Microbiology.[1] Her lab's research is focused on electrical properties of metal-reducing microorganisms.
Reguera received a her BS in microbiology from Universidad de Oviedo in 1992 and earned her PhD in microbiology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst[2] in 2001. From 2001-2002, she worked on the role of the toxin-coregulated pilus in the ecological fitness of Vibrio cholerae[3] as a Spanish Ministry of Science postdoctoral fellow with Roberto Kolter at Harvard Medical School. From 2002-2006, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in the group of Derek Lovley and authored the 2005 Nature publication "Extracellular electron transfer via microbial nanowires", the first report of conductive pili in Geobacter.[4]
Reguera is a leader in the emerging field of electromicrobiology and potential applications of electroactive microbial biofilms in bioenergy and bioremediation.[5] In 2011, her group discovered that uranium could be reduced outside the cell.[6]