YNP is an actively changing environment! Plenty of hazards in this amazing environment 😅

Methanogenesis outside the Euryarchaeota experimentally demonstrated by three cultivation-driven studies (two from my lab)! A long🧵.🐻with me tinyurl.com/4v4fkda6 tinyurl.com/yr4p7js6 tinyurl.com/mtsrj6b9

Montana State University news article about our work montana.edu/news/23884/mon…

My lab is always looking for enthusiastic and driven postdocs to join the lab. If you are in the EU and want to spend some time working on novel methanogens in beautiful Bozeman, MT, consider applying for a Marie-Curie fellowship, email me your ideas! …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/how-to…

Why do I still do it 🙃

Ok! This is a special one! My last postdoc / first PI paper is out! 🥳 Stay with me if you are into: Defense Systems🛡️ Asgard Archaea⚡️ Origin/Evolution of Immunity💪🏽 rdcu.be/dPyF4 🧵(1/8)

Well written article on costs and accessibility of open access publishing

Happy to share my 1st first-author paper in print! Asgard archaea modulate potential methanogenesis substrates in wetland soil. 1/4

Bacteria can exhibit sophisticated responses to stimuli, but should we consider them intelligent? A provocative book, The Sentient Cell, paves the way for a long-overdue conversation about consciousness. Read the #ScienceBooks Review on #BookLoversDay: scim.ag/7YR

A new substrate for #nitrification by #comammox microbes: #Guanidine So glad to see this out in nature today – great collaborative effort from our @FWF Cluster of Excellence, Universität Wien, team Aalborg Universitet, and UFZ nature.com/articles/s4158…

A very cool study out of the Templeton group using SIP-Raman on a single cell level to elucidate the growth rates of bacteria. Culture independent methods like these are key to peering beyond genomics into the lifecycle of uncultured microbes!

How Green Algae Count Cell Divisions Illuminates Key Step Needed For The Evolution Of Multicellular Life astrobiology.com/2023/11/how-gr… #Astrobiology #evolution

This study reminds me of the Star Trek episode “evolution” where Wesley Crusher accidentally lets loose his Nanites in the Enterprise. The nanites were programmed to find ways to work together and evolve

Its small but its something! Finally broke into the triple digits 😅 scholar.google.com/citations?user…

Come work with us! Seeking a Research Associate (RA) with expertise in drug delivery, genome editing, and virology. Apply here --> gladstone.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/…

A must read. Great read showing the diversity that exists in microbes

Four stages of acceptance in science: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but a perverse point of view. 3. This is true, but quite unimportant. 4. I always said so. - J.B.S. Haldane, The Truth About Death, 1963

To learn about the latest views, disputes and future research directions on the origin of the eukaryotic cell, read our review in nature here: nature.com/articles/s4158… Non-paywalled version here: rdcu.be/dTFrR