Zhirui Zeng

@PaulaWelander Big big congratulations Paula!

My department threw me a lovely party today to celebrate getting tenure and my lab group outdid themselves with the cake decorations! GDGT ❤️'s are perfect!! 🥰

"People have been looking for these proteins for 40 years." @StanfordEarth Associate Professor @PaulaWelander discussing a newly-published research effort unlocking historic #ocean temperatures by studying microbes called archaea. Read more: stanford.io/33kulyx

GDGT cyclization proteins identify the dominant archaeal sources of tetraether lipids in the ocean pnas.org/content/early/…

Cell Structure Changes in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus Lacking the S-Layer mbio.asm.org/content/10/4/e…

The Ca Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum MK-D1 genome CP042905 is now available on GenBank! (Sorry for the delay, we were on summer break and forgot to reply to an email from GenBank...) @hiro_imachi

Calditol-linked membrane lipids are required for acid tolerance in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius pnas.org/content/115/51…