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New preprint out on microbial urea use in the deep sea. Bottom line: urea is important! Wonderful work by several members of my group over years, including @NestorArandia Alex Jaffe Chloé Baumas

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)

3rd chapter of my dissertation finally published in Nature Communications! We reconstructed the first complete Asgard archaeal genomes from short reads, validated with long reads. Genome structures & metabolic insights reveal key roles in carbon/hydrogen cycling in wetlands.

‼️Exciting news this morning! Our new preprint on human skin #archaeome is online. A great collaboration with the Schleper lab Schleper Lab Vienna, spearheaded by Alexander Mahnert🇪🇺🇺🇦 supported by many colleagues and friends! 👇Details: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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

It's cool when you name an organism based on its DNA, and then another lab does all the hard work to cultivate it and confirm its metabolism. New nature paper out on my favorite archaeon: Methanodesulfokora washburnensis tinyurl.com/ms2fknmj

New paper out! We continue our work on the hyperhalophilic microbial communities of the Danakil Depression (Ethiopia) using metagenomics. We have studied hypersaline lakes with strong geothermal influence, such as the Western Canyon Lakes (WCL). nature.com/articles/s4155…

Our latest preprint is out! This paper led by Sukhwan Yoon uncovers a new process controlling the global hydrogen and nitrogen cycles, i.e. the direct coupling of hydrogen oxidation and ammonification. A beautiful combination of isolation, bioreactor, and systems biology studies.

Gracias a Valeria María Torres Nieves y El Nuevo Día por difundir esta nuestra investigacion. Aunque esté lejos, la ciencia me mantiene conectado con mi querido pueblo y país. Espero que esta historia inspire a niños y niñas a verse como futuros científicos, llegando incluso más lejos de lo

Thank you for this recognition. It is a great privilege to be part of such an innovative, collaboration and transformational faculty and university.

Aurora outside Bozeman 🤩

So excited to see this out! Aerated environments can be major sources of methane. This is due to the activities of aerotolerant methanogens. In the process, we show unexpected feedbacks between pollution and climate change. Ning Hall Perran Cook biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/11 Excited to share our latest paper in @GenomeResearch: "Complete genomes of Asgard archaea reveal diverse integrated and mobile genetic elements" 🧬🦠 The Banfield Lab

Ethane-oxidizing #archaea (close relatives of #methanogens) channel electrons from ethane to F420. The Fpo complex oxidizes F420, producing an H+ gradient and transferring electrons to bacteria, possibly via #nanowires. Nature Communications Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨 Our stellar postdoc (w/ Stolper Lab) @GroppJonathan posted his first preprint! His work resolves a long-standing conundrum in the field of geobiology by showing how the biochemistry of methanogenesis impacts the isotope composition of biogenic methane! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our art also made it to the cover of this issue! MGEs are depicted as circular forms representing chromosomes and MGEs of Atabeyarchaea, symbolizing the dynamic interactions between host genomes and mobile elements. At the center, a stylized figure inspired by Atabey, the Taíno

Someone recently said Puerto Rico is just an island full of garbage, which reminded me of a grad school interview in the U.S. a few years ago when a professor told me they were 'surprised' I could be so smart coming from Puerto Rico. I’ve faced comments like these too often in

🚨My first pre-print is up🚨Methane production from hydrocarbon by consortium dominated by ANME archaea. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very excited to have come on board as the co-chair for this event alongside Chris Greening! Climate change is an urgent issue, and microbes are the solution! PhDs, ECRs all have reduced rego for this event, so look out for that + abstracts announcements soon! #enviromicro

The Chamber of Secrets has been opened... but for yerba mate! 🧉 🧬 eLife - the journal #yerbamate #mate #genome #caffeine #science doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…