MSU Extreme Biology

Hello! We are scientists @montanastate across several departments who research life in extreme environments. Follow us if you are interested in extremophiles, astrobiology, or origins of life research 🌍

Congratulations to rockstar PhD candidate @hannah_goemann for being awarded a NIFA predoctoral fellowship to torture some plants (as we do!) and examine plant-microbe interactions and root exudates!!!! 👏 🥳

First issue of the @ISMEJournal showing the image I took of the multicellular magnetotactic bacteria I study. The image will grace the cover of the journal for the entire year of 2022! What an honor! Huge thanks to @environmicrobio for the opportunity!

❄️ GEO-BIO POST-DOC OPPORTUNITY ❄️ Join @NERCscience #Cryo365 working on Arctic glacier geomicrobiology with @arwynedwards and others @AberUni. 30 month position, year-round Arctic fieldwork in Svalbard, multi-omics approaches, superb international team. jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/pos…

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Congrats to all of #MontanaState's Fall 2021 graduates! Be proud of your accomplishment! Here's to even brighter futures. #catgrad21

Great opportunity for those working on agnostic biosignatures and approaches for detecting life as we don't know it to present their work at #AbSciCon22! Submit an abstract here by Jan 19th: agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon21… #astrobiology #NFoLD

Hello, do you follow us and have an Instagram? If so, please follow our new TBI Instagram account for more research on life in extreme environments! instagram.com/msuextremebio/

#Biofilm research is booming! Since the founding of the #CBE in 1990, the number of biofilm papers published has grown from 206 to a staggering 83,578. #biofilmfirst #MontanaState

#NSFNRT #NSFfunded #Thermophiles #Extremophiles #TBI #CBE #Biofilm

PhD students sought for fellowship in “extreme biofilms” at Montana State Univ. You would gain professional development & experience researching biofilms in extreme systems. Apply by 1/28. Stipends of $34k are available for 2 years of a PhD program. tinyurl.com/EBNRT

Please RT. The Danish @Hadal_Center & @Nordcee at Univ. Southern Denmark is looking for 3 PhD students to study: Microbial Metabolisms in Deep Sea & Hadal Systems; Deep-Sea Microbial Degradation of Organic Matter; Benthic Carbon & Nutrient Cycling After Sediment Resuspension. 1/n

@YellowstoneNPS @AltYelloNatPark

CRISPR technologies are powerful gene editing tools because they are programmable. We are excited to describe 3 new programmable systems, IscB, IsrB, and TnpB, some of the most abundant genes on the planet, with potential for gene editing. @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The enrollment procedure @LMBExE @UninaIT for European and Italian students is now open! Come join us to study the most remote locations of our planet! bioextreme.it #masterprogram #master #masterdegree #university #astrobiology #extremeenvironments

Here is a radical idea: How about requiring senior faculty to express their commitments & contributions to DEI before asking junior faculty and applicants to write DEI statements that many aren’t even qualified to evaluate because they have never done the work I said it 🙊

@RikaEAnderson @CarletonCollege @oceanobserv Congratulations!

Our new paper is out! #Metagenomics and metagenome-assembled genomes #MAGs of microbial communities across extreme temperature gradients on Deception Island volcano #Antarctica sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Researchers @EMSLscience, with @environmicrobio & Qian Wang @montanastate published a new mRNA-FISH protocol. fliFISH uses on/off cycles of photo-switch dyes to set predetermined threshold for distinguishing true signal from background noise. Read it here: tiny.cc/6be2uz