Izzy Baker

Delighted to share that I will be joining the faculty in Earth, Marine, and Environmental Science at UNC Chapel Hill! The Baker Lab will be opening later this summer. Stay tuned 🦠🧫🔬

On Tuesdays, we wear blue. 🫐

Redox distribution of Asgard archaea and co-occurring taxa in microbial mats from an early Proterozoic ecosystem analog biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

"Preemptive biofilm colonization blocks microbial metal corrosion" rdcu.be/fdDVp “Rust never sleeps”- but engineered E. coli biofilms stop even the most aggressive microbial corrosion of steel. Towards effective, sustainable corrosion mitigation

"Methanogens Through Time and Space: Impact on Earth’s Planetary Evolution and Biogeochemistry" doi.org/10.3390/geosci…

Microbial growth rates captured using Raman-SIP reveal a highly active subsurface biosphere fueled by serpentinization nature.com/articles/s4146…

Applications for MIT Novo-Nordisk AI postdoc fellowships are due Apr 15. Focus area lists AI and Biology topics, apply to work on this exciting field with amazing peers! engineering.mit.edu/novo-nordisk

How do oysters keep building shell when pH is bouncing around every tide? 🌊🦪 Our new PNAS paper finds host–microbiome coexpression patterns, suggesting coordinated regulation of shell-forming chemistry! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Delighted to share that I will be joining the faculty in Earth, Marine, and Environmental Science at UNC Chapel Hill! The Baker Lab will be opening later this summer. Stay tuned 🦠🧫🔬

@realelectromom Thanks Arpita!

Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

Check out the official logo for Mid-Atlantic #Geobiology 2025! Featuring North America’s largest estuary—the Chesapeake Bay! Registration and more info about the symposium here: midatlanticgeobiologysymposium.org

Mid-Atlanticans, save the date! The Mid-Atlantic #Geobiology Symposium will be Friday, February 28, 2025 at Johns Hopkins. See you then! 🧪🦠🌎🪱 midatlanticgeobiologysymposium.org

Nicolas Svetec, David Begun, and I wrote a review article about de novo genes. If you are interested in this topic please take a look at this final open-access version @AnnualReviews annualreviews.org/content/journa….

Hopping over to 🦋as @izzrbaker. See ya there!

Currently obsessed with this journal cover

Symbiont-housing structures are rarely studied in unicellular protists. Jerlström-Hultqvist et al. show that low-oxygen-adapted Anaeramoebae have symbiosomes positioning sulfate-reducing bacteria near hydrogenosomes. @jon_hultqvist @andrewjroger nature.com/articles/s4146…

High functional vulnerability across the world’s deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Timescales in Cell Biology

The Biomass of Life 🐧🐸🐯🐹🐼🐍🐞🦂🐙🐬🐘🦙🐊🦀 #biomass #biodiversity #infographic #science #life #animals #biology #zoology #data #dataviz #dataart #datavisualization #dataillustration #illustration