Integrative Thermodynamics Strategies in Microbial Metabolism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Methanotrophy Under Extreme Alkalinity in a Serpentinizing System www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Microbial exoenzymes catalyzed the transition to an oxygenated Earth #USC_MEB #jcampubs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tectonic setting shapes microbial biosynthetic potential across global geothermal environments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Testing the priming effect in the deep ocean: are microorganisms too starved to consume recalcitrant organic carbon? journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

Interspecies electron transfer as one of key drivers of methanogenic consortia succession within quorum sensing regulation academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Microbial ecology of acidic, biogenic gypsum: community structure and distribution of extremophiles on freshly formed and relict sulfate deposits in a hydrogen sulfide-rich cave journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Great new trait of #Methanoperedens archaea: Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic #methanotrophic archaea #aom #anme Egas @cuwelte.bsky.social et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tectonic setting shapes microbial biosynthetic potential across global geothermal environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.675129v1

Methanotrophy Under Extreme Alkalinity in a Serpentinizing System https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675893v1

🚨New preprint from our lab!🚨 We trace the evolution of microbial exoenzymes and uncover their role in Earth’s oxygenation. By recycling nutrients, exoenzymes helped fuel cyanobacteria and set off feedbacks that sustained the long-term rise of O₂. #MicroSky 🧪 🦠 🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Great new article about the cool stuff we're finding (improbably) alive deep inside Earth's crust! Nice work, @laurapoppick.bsky.social at @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

New review paper on metabolic handoffs in microbiomes led by PhD student Katie Klier. We define major types of metabolic handoffs, examine their drivers and benefits, & describe their importance in different complex microbial systems and environments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hey are you looking for a postdoc focusing on microbial ecology/bioinformatics? Hit me up - it’s not my lab but trying to help someone else staff their lab. If you have a student about to defend, this could be a great chance to get a ton of papers.

Lithosyntrophy: Obligate syntrophy in a phosphite-oxidizing, methanogenic culture www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

📢 New paper in @nature.com Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡ 🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Phosphite oxidizers 🤝 Methanogens In our new paper on “Lithosyntrophy” we show that phosphite oxidation drives methanogenesis through interspecies H2 transfer. Lithosyntrophy establishes a novel mechanistic link between the #phosphorus and carbon redox cycles

Excited to share our pre-print examining microbial activity and carbon utilization in the serpentinizing subsurface! Tl;dr: Serpentinite-hosted microbes are notably active, thriving on DIC despite alkalinity. Implications for #astrobiology, #carboncapture, and #GeoH2! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dissolved inorganic carbon supports robust anabolism and methanogenesis in actively serpentinizing rocks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Our story about microbial methane is out! We found that reducing the expression of a key gene of methanogenesis modulates the isotopic composition of the methane: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Check out also the coverage at the UC Berkeley News website: news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/s...

Functional genomic signatures predict microbial culturability across the tree of life #USC_MEB #USC_earth #jcampubs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

“Isolation of a new methanotroph belonging to Mycobacterium” is now out! Awesome work by my former postdoc Hiromi Kambara, who led this project all the way. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

New in #AppEnvMicro: Best et al. describe the diverse microbial communities found in historic mine wastes. These microbes could represent important resources for bioremediation and other biotech applications, including the recovery of valuable elements. @asm.org doi.org/10.1128/aem....

Preprint🚨 #microsky 🦠 “Cultivation of Methanonezhaarchaeia, the third class of methanogens within the phylum Thermoproteota”, authored by @kohtzarchaeota.bsky.social & Sylvia Nupp, expands the diversity of methanogens! 90% enriched, methylotrophic culture from a hot spring. A 🧵 tinyurl.com/yw8ku2bj

Our latest, lead by @ahoiching.bsky.social, uncovering physiological vulnerabilities and helping to explain growth rate limitation in SAR11. Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

#Comment 🚨Out now! Aeonophiles - ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms @karenlloyd.bsky.social #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Expanded Diversity of Microbial Groups Capable of Anaerobic Pyrite Reduction and Assimilation of Dissolution Products enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

For ANME enthusiasts & for those who wonder how a methanogen turns into a methanotroph 👇New work by Orphanlab Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @caltech.edu @mblscience.bsky.social

Our Editorial for the 'Deep Subsurface Microbiology and Energetics' research topic in @frontiersin.bsky.social We highlight diverse and interdisciplinary studies on deep subsurface microbial life, and commemorate Jan Amend, in whose memory this collection was created tinyurl.com/ytumsz2h

Stop by my poster today if you want to chat about lithosyntrophy! #ASMicrobe

Our latest on the microbiology of SAR116, led by the indefatigable Jordan Coelho: Culture-supported ecophysiology of the SAR116 clade demonstrates metabolic and spatial niche partitioning academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Hey #ASMicrobe friends! If you like phosphorus redox cycling, anaerobes, syntrophy, and physiology, come by my talk and poster this weekend! 🦠 (1/2)

I'm happy to announce the latest release of the GlobDB, available at globdb.org. The GlobDB is a database of "species dereplicated" microbial genomes, and as of release 226 contains twice the number of species-representative genomes (306,260) than the latest GTDB release.

Bioavailable phosphite in the surface ocean during the Great Oxidation Event www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Our paper on the cultivation of a putative sulfur comproportionator from the Frasassi caves is finally out! Jan would have been happy to see this paper published - it's got everything that he loved: thermodynamics, cultivation, weird metabolisms, and life underground. Cheers to Jan! rdcu.be/enlo3

BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Organic carbon oxidation state shapes fermentative methanogenic microbiomes and controls greenhouse gas fluxes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

New preprint by Ruiwen Hu @microbialcookie.bsky.social! We show that carbon oxidation state shapes carbon degradation in rice paddy sediments. Negative NOSC = slower degradation, more methane, and more syntrophs & methanogens but fewer fermenters. Genomes reflect thermodynamic preferences.

Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life book by @karenlloyd.bsky.social #usc_earth #usc_meb www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

High-throughput cultivation and isolation of environmental anaerobes using selectively permeable hydrogel capsules www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Enabling next-generation anaerobic cultivation through biotechnology to advance functional microbiome research - @tclavel.bsky.social @rwth.bsky.social go.nature.com/3GA6gg4

Evaluating Serpentinization as a Source of Phosphite to Microbial Communities in Hydrothermal Vents onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

You know the way we all talk about leveraging 'omics information to improve ecosystem/biogeochemical model performance - well here's a step in that direction - led by Zhen Li integrating across many scientific teams to make this happen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large Filamentous Bacteria Isolated From Sulphidic Sediments Reveal Novel Species and Distinct Energy and Defence Mechanisms for Survival enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs