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Did you know that the phrase "wrapping it up for the day" comes from microbiologists wrapping up their Petri dishes at the end of the day, before they crawl back under the incubator to sleep?

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Science is mostly an excuse to use Parafilm

Archaea: Hey! How’s it going? People: Hey, aren’t you from some hot springs or something? Archaea: No, we’re from here. Like, from you. ⭐️Not all archaea live in extreme locations. ⭐️

Huge congratulations to Blake Downing on his first, first author publication! We are so proud of you-- Rnf actually stands for "Really Nice First (publication)"😎 Also congrats to co-author Dinesh Gupta!! Out now in Mol Micro Editors; read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm… ⚡️🦠

It was fun talking about chromatin & crochet :) thanks for having me

So proud to share the newest pre-print from our lab: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A tour de force co-led by postdocs Gray and Aaron @aaronjoinerphd, in collaboration with Sangeetha Ramesh and Prof. Doug Mitchell at UIUC. Turns out it takes a village to do great science (& build MCR!)

TGIF! A new preprint out from our superstar postdoc Dinesh Gupta w/ collabs Keying Chen & SJE-Lab! Our fave heptaheme cytochrome, MmcA, takes the stage to tell us more about its role in e- transport to membrane bound & extracellular acceptors! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thrilled to share that our paper on MCR assembly was published PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

Methanogens ❤️ MCR, but how much do they really need? 🤔 Our postdoc Gray Chadwick & grad student Gavin Dury titrated MCR expression to test the hypothesis that MCR catalyzes the growth rate-limiting step of methanogenesis in their new preprint! 🤓 Read: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have today announced the names of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellows! Congratulations to these 126 outstanding early-career researchers: sloan.org/fellowships/20…

Congrats to MCB's Dipti Nayak Nayak Lab and Meng-meng Fu Meng-meng Fu on being named Sloan Foundation research fellows! 👏🎉

We're SO excited for and proud of our PI Dr. Nayak for this achievement!!! 🥳👩‍🔬 Congratulations to all the other Sloan Research Fellows at UC Berkeley and beyond! 🎊🥼🧪 news.berkeley.edu/2024/02/20/nin…

So excited to have this ⚡️electrifying⚡️ story published! Congratulations to lead author Dinesh (Dinesh Gupta) & collaborators! SJE-Lab Check out the article to learn about the roles of MmcA in methanogenic electron transport: nature.com/articles/s4146…

MCR Update! 🎇 Gray and Gavin's study is officially online at AppEnvMicro journal! Congratulations to them both for their hard work!! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1128/aem.02…

AppEnvMicro journal Spotlight 💡 Researchers at UC Berkeley show that there is a wide range of cellular MCR concentrations that can sustain optimal growth, suggesting that other factors might be rate-limiting for methanogenic growth. Nayak Lab Read more: doi.org/10.1128/aem.02…

👽🦠 Help us find clues in the search for extraterrestrial life at this month's Caminos de la Ciencia, Tue, Sept 24, 5:30pm, Oakland Public Library. These events are held entirely in Spanish & feature scientists fr across UC Berkeley. Share broadly and learn more: scienceatcal.berkeley.edu/caminos-de-la-…