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Tess Hutchinson rounded out our microbial session with her work on understanding the fate of organic fermentation products in sandy marine sediments. As emphasised by Chris Greening Tess cultured her own isolates from Middle Park Beach, true dedication! 🏖️

Enjoyed attending Monash's Micro Student Symposium today. Stellar job all! Congratulations to lab members Tess Hutchinson, Bob Leung, and Cait Welsh for their talks, each of which received awards or commendations. And David Gillett for helping organise and asking great questions.

Yesterday I presented the work that will make up my final PhD chapter for the first time. I was extra nervous presenting in front of microbiologists but all went well and I came away with 2 awards! Thanks to all involved 🥰👩‍🔬🏅

wow we're all going to die

Our new preprint shows how an obligately aerobic bacterium adapts to hypoxia. It switches to fermentation, but unlike anaerobes, stores rather than excretes carbon. This novel hybrid metabolism helps it thrive environments with variable oxygen levels. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share the first manuscript from my PhD on bioRxiv! Mycobacteria can't grow without oxygen, but have a complex response to prolong survival and enhance resuscitation when it runs out. This includes activating fermentative hydrogen production!

Congratulations to our new Chemistry PhD Graduates; Winnie Cao, Nicholas Kyratzis, Sam Walker, Nimrod Eren, Tess Hutchinson, Joshua King, Lorenzo Carli and Sarmi Munuganti We wish you well in your future careers. #MONASHALUMNI

Sharing our new manuscript in The ISME Journal led by Dr Tess Hutchinson and Perran Cook. By tracking how the carbon in glucose is broken down in samples and isolates, she definitely shows fermentation dominates in sands, anaerobic respiration in muds. academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

Very excited to have Dr Jennnifer Pett-Ridge Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge and the team from at the DNA-Stable Isotope Probing Workshop in Malaysia this week! Participants come from various places to learn about the principles and techniques surrounding DNA-SIP.

A while ago Hazlin Hazrin-Chong wrote to ask if we would teach a course at Monash Malaysia about stable isotope probing(SIP). As you prob know, I’m a huge advocate. We (Steve Blazewicz, Mike Allen & I) were excited to develop a SIP curriculum and get to visit Kuala Lumpur. A 🧵

We successfully wrapped up our DNA-SIP workshop with experts from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory! Huge thanks to everyone who attended and contributed. Special thanks to our esteemed instructors for their invaluable expertise. #EnvironmentalScience #MicrobialEcology #Research #SIP #Workshop

1/5) Super excited to share our new #Preprint 🚨! Here we coupled genome-resolved #Metagenomics with #Biogeochemical fluxes to show that tree barks contain active microbial communities that cycle climate-active gases including CH₄, H₂, CO and VOCs 🦠🌱biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Look up, tree barks are overlooked habitats for diverse and specialised microbial communities 🌳🦠!! They mediate hidden activities in the mitigation and production of climate-active gases. Check out the excellent summary by Dr. Luke Jeffrey and our new preprint.

Finally a professional lab photo! Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Very proud of this study. Cait Welsh, Forster Lab, Princess R. Cabotaje, Ph.D., Berggren@UU, Lyras Lab, Vanessa R Marcelino, and Duncan Kountz.

Good morning South Africa! Join the Climate Change Roundtable at #ISME19, 5:30 today. I'll discuss how microbial biotech is critical for mitigation and adaptation. Our new preprint below sets the scene for why we need microbial ecology to guide this space. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

So excited to attend #ISME19 this week. Im really looking forward to engaging talk, poster and events. If you are interested in how #N2O is regulated by marine microbes in beach sediment, please visit my poster PS2.09.007 on Tuesday morning

Amazing talk from Cait Welsh at #ISME19 summarising her work on gut hydrogen cycling. Stellar research, incredible communication. Check out the preprint below. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tess Hutchinson thank you for giving an insightful talk on the potential thermal flexibility of trace gas oxidation processes from Antarctic samples. In light of our warming climate, this work may prove invaluable!

The first speaker of our second session is Tess Hutchinson from Monash University Chris Greening who’s telling us about Antarctic soil bacteria and how they can sustain trace gas oxidation across wide temperature ranges 🥶🦠 #MEEM2024