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Our 🌎 HFSP team’s work on the wonderful diversity of the engine of the motor powering bacterial swimming is now up on bioRxiv We found as many of these rotating machines as we could to look at how this tiny wheel might have evolved. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Twitter friends, is there anyone with experience culturing purple sulfur bacteria? ☀️ 🧫

Many of my colleagues in the Department of Earth Science at UC Santa Barbara (myself included) are looking for grads to start in 2025. Coolest place to be! Topics go from tectonics and volcanoes, to the early evolution of life 🌎🦠🔬 Please share broadly!

New online! Marine biogeochemical nitrogen cycling through Earth’s history go.nature.com/3THoakt

Interested in leading a dynamic, productive, and growing biology department in San Marcos located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country? We are still taking applications for our next Chair! Deadline 10/1. Please share or RT! jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/47632

Excited to share my review on reconstructing early life, out Annual Reviews! It covers past and future prospects for reviving extinct biochemistry, and how integrating our 4-billion-year planetary history with biochemical evolution can advance biology. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Have you ever dreamed of playing a retro video game themed on the origin of life and astrobiology? If yes, I just made the perfect game for you! Let me know your score and let's see if you can create life on your planet! lucatonietti.com/origin-of-life… #astrobiology #spacebiology

Woodstoich 5 has wrapped up! Five papers finished, all received at least 2 peer reviews in <24 hours, first revisions for most are complete, and least two are already provisionally accepted! SUCCESS! Congrats to all.

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Out today! 🚨 We explore how planetary oxidation ~2.5 billion years ago shaped the puzzling history of metal use in nitrogenase, key to nitrogen fixation! 🌍🔬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… work led by Morgan Sobol, Holly Rucker, in collab. with Eric Libby & Ariel Anbar. UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology

Nitrogenase Structural Evolution Across Earth’s History astrobiology.com/2024/12/nitrog… #astrobiology #genomics #evolution

Opportunity for a Masters, PhD student, and Post doc at the University of South Alabama/Dauphin Island Sea Lab to work on an EPA-funded water quality project! More information on the job descriptions available at disl.edu/about/employme… Please share! :)

I'm excited to be co-hosting a new seminar series on Protein Structure Evolution. Talk 1: Andrei Lupas Topic: "Highly repetitive genomic ORFs: a source of new fibrous proteins?" 📅 Feb. 11, 3PM GMT 🔗 tinyurl.com/prose-seminar1 Please share!

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab is hiring scientists to study enzyme evolution across geologic time. Learn more about one of our projects here:⬇️ microbiology.wisc.edu/2025/01/09/mdt… Folks who recently lost jobs are especially encouraged to apply! #ScienceJobs Contact: kacarlab.org

🚨New preprint alert!🚨 Biology’s been metal since the very beginning🤘 We mapped Mo-dependent pathways across microbes and show this reliance emerged before oxygen showed up. Our results challenge assumptions about Mo scarcity on early Earth. UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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How did life begin, and why does it matter today? Proud to be one of the organizers of a new ASM report supported by the Moore Foundation, exploring microbial origins & how they inform biotech, climate, and search for life in the universe. ➡️ asm.org/reports/early-…

🚨New preprint! Origins of life research is fragmented across disciplines. We built #ChemOrigins, a community curated searchable database of experimental prebiotic chemistry. Read ➡️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Visit ➡️ chemorigins.bact.wisc.edu For feedback contact: Bruno Cuevas!