Geomicrobiology NZ

Consensus Statement: Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria nature.com/articles/s4156… The authors propose two recommendations for naming prokaryotes that currently lack type material or cultured representatives, and do not have a formal nomenclature system.

It's Fe again! In our latest @nature paper we identify a proto-metabolic network that might have existed on the early Earth prior to life itself. @MoranLabUdS @ajaanubahu @unistra @CNRS #originoflife #abiogenesis #OoL #prebioticchemistry #evolution nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am writing a #bookchapter on new methods to study #desert #microbes and #microbiome🦠 Let me know if you have some recent work from your labs that I should read/cite! #biocrust #aridland #omics #imagery Please RT. Thanks 🙏

Ever wanted to show just how big an E coli is? Thanks to Lund University Bioimaging Centre for this beautiful film of our sand. @lunduniversity @Lundsuni @LUWater3 @LTHinfo

Hard Laura's work on the placement of eukaryotes in the tree of life in collaboration with Thijs Ettema - sister to the new Idunn asgardarchaea?

At the upper end of that line of wells is a bubbling spring with white bacterial mats and the smell of rotten eggs. H2S oxidizing bacteria? Any bacteria identifiers out there capable of IDing from a movie?

Thermophiles from a 50-year-old underground fire? Now that is extreme! youtu.be/rcKxS2rbEdg via @YouTube

Delighted to have been a part of this manuscript in Nature Microbiology led by @anjspa1 and @Ettema_lab We propose a renewed model for the evolution of the first eukaryote.

Waikite Geyser at Te Puia, Rotorua is getting around! Check out this iconic geothermal feature at 1000springs.org.nz/samplesite/833

Cheers Dave! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🔬🦠🌋♨️♀️♂️

Awesome paper on mixing of meteoric and geothermal fluids supporting hyperdiverse chemosynthetic communities disq.us/t/3bdii6e

A renewed ‘hard’ border is unpalatable to almost everyone on the island of Ireland, including scientists. go.nature.com/2CR9K96

Check this out at 1000springs.org.nz/samplesite/271

@trinity_lh If you click on the "Microbial Diversity" tab, and then the "Change view" option, you'll see a pie chart of the bacteria/archaea we found in there - 59.2% Acidithiobacillus apparently! 😀

@trinity_lh 1000springs.org.nz/samplesite/271 we sampled this guy for our 1000 Springs Project in NZ - check out the link!

Our meta-analysis of metagenomics benchmarks. Hard, but interesting work with Renee Watson, Xochi Morgan, @learithe @robdfinn Sergio Morales & Matt Stott peerj.com/articles/6160/ via @thePeerJ

Microbial art ❤️ nzgeo.com/stories/life-i…

You probably saw these rows and columns in your high school science classes. But it’s still a work in progress. #IYPT2019 ow.ly/VylS30neGqM

@IChambefort is awesome. You want to work for her. Trust me 😀🇳🇿🌋