Thrilled to share our new paper: Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. 🧪 @melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries

This paper discusses current research on subsurface microbiology. Exploring Earth's deep and extreme subsurface environments provides critical insights into life's limits and adaptability. Subsurface...

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A lot has been happening recently - I'm thrilled to be a Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow (as of last month!), to be a part of this amazing science, and to lead the NSF SBS/BioOce PurSUiT project on cryptic microbial lineage systematics in marine sediment! (the 2nd award mentioned here 🥳)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences@bigelowlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Single Cell Grant Upswell: #BigelowLab recently received two awards from the National Science Foundation for research that will help unlock the individual cell and its untapped biotechnology potential. 🌎 FMI: www.bigelow.org/news/article... #science #ocean #maine #microbes #genomics

Organisms that are buried alive for many thousands of years without enough energy to grow could be called "aeonophiles", so we can talk about them more easily. @drewsteen.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4tzecaxn

Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles

Nature Microbiology - In environments like the deep subsurface, microorganisms with long doubling times can remain metabolically active for millions of years — we propose referring to this...

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So excited that this paper is out! We use a novel method to quantify rates of respiration in sediment-hosted cells, and reveal ecological impacts of oxygen and seaweed-derived carbon on flexible lineages inhabiting Coastal Maine sediment.

Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment

Abstract. The chemical cycles carried out by bacteria and archaea living in coastal sediments are vital aspects of benthic ecology. These ecosystems are su

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Excited to see the data that gets collected! Yay learning experiences in the field!!

Karis Jones Ph.D.@karismjones.bsky.social · 2y ago

When the grant supplies finally arrive 😭 so excited for these Go Pros to get out to our teachers and into the field! @melroselane.bsky.social #LearningOnTheMove