Morgan Sobol

I’m thrilled to be opening my lab at @txst in the @Txstbiology dept. this January!! We will be studying early microbial ecology and evolution. 🦠 🌎 I’m extremely grateful for the support of my mentors, colleagues, family, and friends! ❤️ Contact me for openings. #newPI #1stgen

Our new paper, out today! We resurrected an enzyme first used by life on Earth 3 billion years ago. We validated a #biosignature in rocks that helps reveal ancient life on Earth to guide the search for ancient life on other worlds! @NASA #astrobiology nature.com/articles/s4146…

@jobRxiv This position has been filled.

Looking for a postdoc position and enjoy applying 'omics approaches to questions in microbial ecology and evolution? Then please consider applying! Postdoc in environmental microbial 'omics @morganmicro Texas State University See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/texas-stat… #astrobiology #environmentalmicrobiology #metagenomics #metatranscriptomics #microbialecology #ScienceJobs jobrxiv.org/job/texas-stat…

@jobRxiv This position has been filled.

Looking for a postdoc position and enjoy applying 'omics approaches to questions in microbial ecology and evolution? Then please consider applying! Postdoc in environmental microbial 'omics @morganmicro Texas State University See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/texas-stat… #astrobiology #environmentalmicrobiology #metagenomics #metatranscriptomics #microbialecology #ScienceJobs jobrxiv.org/job/texas-stat…

The Earth is in space. Explore it. For health. For wealth. For humanity.

How did life begin, and why does it matter today? Proud to be one of the organizers of a new @ASMicrobiology report supported by the @MooreFound, 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: @BrZuviria!

@RaulGoch @txst Welcome to the @Txstbiology department Raúl! 😊

Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Dept of Biology @txst this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor! Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Reach out!

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🚨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. @UWBact biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@Extreme_GeoBio So sorry to hear that. It’s not fair!

Unfortunately and regrettably we will not be filling this position and have released the post doc that we had hired. The EPA rescinded our award this week.

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! :)

🚨 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

@ArlinStoltzfus For a second I thought this was Arrival of the Fittest by Andreas Wagner, but seems they are two different books with the same title 🤔 I can also recommend Wagner’s book as well!

This is going on my reading list. I'm particularly interested in how the development of evolutionary thinking was shaped by highly engaged non-scientist intellectuals who wrote about evolution early in the 20th century press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

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!

@betulland @txst @Txstbiology Thank you! You all will be dearly missed 🫶🏻

@MorganMicro @txst @Txstbiology So proud of you and all you’ve achieved. Best is yet to come, you will be missed. Godspeed!

I’m thrilled to be opening my lab at @txst in the @Txstbiology dept. this January!! We will be studying early microbial ecology and evolution. 🦠 🌎 I’m extremely grateful for the support of my mentors, colleagues, family, and friends! ❤️ Contact me for openings. #newPI #1stgen

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

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 @MorganMicro, @hollyr_rucker, in collab. with Eric Libby & Ariel Anbar. @UWBact

Come be my colleague @txst @Txstbiology! 😁

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