Finally out in @nature.com: a new piece of the puzzle of how complex life evolved. Lead by @archaeal.bsky.social & @katyappler.bsky.social. Great collab with @greening.bsky.social and @kassipan.bsky.social. More pieces to follow soon! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chromosomal capture of beneficial genes drives plasmids towards ecological redundancy | The ISME Journal | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismejo/wraf091/8128477?rss=1&login=false
Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life
book by @karenlloyd.bsky.social #usc_earth #usc_meb
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Bacterial nitrite production oxidizes Fe(II) bioremediating acidic abandoned coal mine drainage journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Enrichment and characterization of anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled with #iron reduction ( #Feammox ) by anaerobic digestion and conventional activated sludges #anammoxhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213343725013351
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
AI for research: the ultimate guide to choosing the right tool www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Extracellular electron transfer proteins contribute to reduction of ferric minerals by Geobacter biofilms journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Most bacterial gene families are biased toward specific chromosomal positions www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6
Just noticed this preprint about #dark_oxygen production by nitrate reducing bacteria. I thought the case of the Deferribacterota is pretty convincing. For the orther bacteria, more work needs to be done. If this is true, dark oxygen turns out te be very prevalent! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Enhanced Ammonium Oxidation and Iron Cycle of #Feammox Under Micro-Oxygen Condition
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Visited Río Clarillo National Park in Chile with our collaborator Nacho Iganacio’a group. Hope our set up works! Thank you for a great team effort yesterday!
Meet the Microbiologist: Manuel Martinez Garcia, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at the University of Alicante in Spain, analyzes genomic signatures of microorganisms frozen in ice cores collected from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in the Antarctic. asm.org/Podcasts/MTM...
Former PhD student Alexis Fonseca has just published his paper about filamentous uncultivated bacteria from sediment off the coast of Chile: dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462... @larspeternielsen.bsky.social
Hydrogenase-driven ATP synthesis from air
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New work from us where we put the Huc hydrogenase to work to see if it can generate a proton motive force. It can!
cc: @ashleighkropp.bsky.social @rhyswg.bsky.social @greening.bsky.social
The Bacterial Antimonite Oxidase AnoA: Unexpected Diversity and Environmental Widespread Occurrence enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
Nice perspective in Science summing up recent advances on the importance of phosphate to the origin of life and featuring my lab's favorite field sites: Lakes Goodenough and Last Chance... (photo is Mono Lake though) www.science.org/content/arti...
Should I stay or should I go: transmission trade-offs in phages and plasmids
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion by @jhuisman.bsky.social, Andrina Bernhard and
@claudiaigler.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
🦠 #OilReservoirs harbor unseen microbial worlds! 🌍🔬 @alexjprobst.bsky.social lab study of a pristine reservoir reveals bacteria & fungi breaking down #hydrocarbons—and a global network of shared genes. But the mystery of plasmid distribution pattern remains! 🧬 #Biodegradation
https://buff.ly/4gwdYUJ
Less than 2-weeks until the deadline for #Goldschmidt2025 session and workshop proposals. Help build the #geochemistry science program, more info⬇️
Distribution of early-branching Cyanobacteriia and the potential habitats that gave rise to the earliest oxygenic phototrophs journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Methanol transfer supports metabolic syntrophy between bacteria and archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Out now, a comprehensive guide to metagenomics -- from sample collection to data analysis. This primer covers best practices, challenges, and applications in health, agriculture & environment. A roadmap for studying microbial communities 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Single-cell phenotyping of extracellular electron transfer via microdroplet encapsulation journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Since I hope to find things to "spark microbial joy," what could be better than scaling up a microbial fuel cell? Maybe from these high sulfide mud seeps in Puget Sound. Right, @pgirguis.bsky.social ??
Introducing mGems, mBio’s new review type | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
Exciting new msystems webinar
What do bacterial cells do when they run out of nutrients? Although most bacterial studies focus on cells in exponentially growing states, in the wild bacteria likely spend most of their time slowly starving to death. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
