Clara Chan

How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by later One of the jobs facing an early-career scientist, and a developing writer, is to learn what their field’s literature looks like. One of the best tools to that end is the journal club. If you’ve nev…

Love this from @stephenbheard.bsky.social on how to prioritize learning and useful discussion over tearing apart papers, and look forward to using some of these question prompts in future lab meetings: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...

Isolation of ‘Candidatus Ferrigenium straubiae’ – a microaerophilic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium and nitrate-reducing Fe(II)-oxidizer within the community of culture KS www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #jcampubs

It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv

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And the strawberry smell enhanced the ambiance!

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

In textbooks, you'll find that certain iron-oxidizing bacteria are exclusively found in freshwater. But we've recovered their genomes from deep-sea hydrothermal vents! 🦠🤔
We've explored what they do, how they adapt to this environment, and whether we can determine their origins 🧬

Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time (Gift Article) Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

**BIG NEWS in the geology world!** For the first time, scientists spotted an active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge!!

They visited the hydrothermal vent the day before, where a vibrant ecosystem thrived in the sweltering water. The next day, everything was gone. ⚒️🧪

My latest for @nytimes.com

Love the Zeta cameo and that whole image composition!

This looks amazing. Congratulations!

Comic release date set for March 22, 2025!
42 pages of microbial adventure + 20-page appendix.
Normal price: $30 USD, $43 CAD, $29 EUR, $46 AUD
20%-off launch sale March 22-31.
Vendor site to follow.
Low-cost PDF available for educational use on request.
#NSF #scicomm

My group and I are excited for this summer’s AEM GRC! It’s always an excellent time. Hope to see many friends and colleagues there.

A nice tribute in honor of Dr Laura Crossey, who has recently retired. I feel very fortunate to have had her as a mentor and role model!

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Just published. Check the astonishing diversity of bacteria that can not only form intracellular nanomagnets but also amorphous calcium carbonates that litterally fill the cells. + beautiful EM and cryo-X-ray microscopy images + genomes; follow the link academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Kati, I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you take comfort in all the good memories.

Now hiring! Looking for PhD student for May 2025 semester investigating terrestrial and aquatic microbial biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and pollutant mobilisation in the Canadian north.

Deadline to apply January 20, 2025

More details here: www.envmicrobio.uoguelph.ca/interested-i...

Adam Rivers (USDA-ARS) and I are hiring a joint postdoc to on a microfluidics and sequencing based project to better understand synthetic and natural microbiome community dynamics and generate data to build AI/ML models to infer interspp. interactions. Hit me up if interested!

Hello 🦋 #protein / #microbio / #BioML community! We are excited to release Gaia🌎, a context-aware protein search tool, extending protein search and discovery capabilities beyond sequence and structure, to include *genomic context*. Search your favorite protein sequences with on gaia.tatta.bio

Isolation, characterization, and genetic manipulation of cold-tolerant, manganese-oxidizing Pseudomonas sp. strains - PubMed Manganese-oxidizing bacteria (MnOB) produce Mn oxide minerals that can be used by humans for bioremediation, but the purpose for the bacterium is less clear. This study describes the isolation and cha...

My first paper as a tenure track professor! I originally posted it on the other site. Let's see if it get more love over here. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39212379/

Hello Bluesky! I'm an assistant professor in microbiology at California State University, Chico. I use genetic approaches to study manganese mineralization in Pseudomonas sp. I watch British murder mysteries and sci-fi and listen to German darkwave synthpop. Who are you?

A unique symbiosome in an anaerobic single-celled eukaryote (Nature Communications)
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Desulfobacteraceae (in phylum Deltaproteobacteria) symbionts help remove H2 produced by hydrogenosomes in the anaerobic protist Anaeramoeba:

Diversity and ecology of microbial sulfur metabolism - Nature Reviews Microbiology In this Review, Zhou, Tran et al. provide a comprehensive overview of the metabolic reactions by which microorganisms transform inorganic sulfur compounds across varied microbiomes and ecosystems, and...

Super excited to share our new review article on the diversity and ecology of microbial sulfur metabolism. Please share widely. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Physiology, Not Nutrient Availability, May Have Limited Primary Productivity After the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria was a transformative event in Earth's history. However, the scientific community disagrees over the duration of the delay between the origin ....

Do we brag on this thing (or did we leave that behind in the other place)? Because Dawn Sumner and I wrote what I think is a pretty cool perspective on why we should consider ecology and evolution when discussing early oxygenic photosynthesis and the GOE. tinyurl.com/mwsdras5

#Asheville Support! Our family member runs a church there, and is organizing support on the ground. If you can donate, go to fpcasheville.org , click REALM and there is a drawdown menu once you start the donation, HURRICANE HELENE is at the bottom.

Please repost!

#JobAlert #microbiology #microbiologyjobs

I am hiring a scientist to work with me at the US Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia.

Interested? Apply at www.usajobs.gov/job/783135100 starting April 1st (note that only 50 applications will be accepted).

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens.

Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue | Applied and Environmental Microbiology Microbial symbionts play many beneficial roles in insect hosts. Schott et al. (e01057-23) show that the leaf-chewing pest of elms (the elm leaf beetle) persistently associates and benefits from fungal...

I invite you to check the Spotlight articles I selected for the latest issue of #ApplEnvironMicrobiol

So proud of the quality work we publish across so many fields in applied and environmental microbiology! 🥹

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New paper alert 🚨
A year long time series of size fractionated coastal microbes : dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462...

🍚 Rice and a pinch of microbial iron

Fe-oxidizers & Fe-reducers partner to form mineral plaques on the roots of rice plants and promote cooperative interactions with other microbes for effective plant protection and nutrition.
– In the latest issue of #AppEnvMicrobiol

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Apply soon to the Geobiology Gordon Research Conference January 14-19, 2024 (by 12/17)! Check out our awesome lineup: www.grc.org/geobiology-c... and consider the GRS too. We have funds to help underrepresented and early career scientists attend--contact me via the GRC website or email.

I finally made it to bluesky! Thanks @karenlloyd.bsky.social for the invite :)