Theda Bartolomaeus

@theda.bsky.social

https://theda-sys.github.io/TUPBartolomaeus/

www.nature.com/articles/s41... New Nature Micro paper tracks how tiny mobile DNA pieces move through microbes over 8 years of thawing at Stordalen Mire, finding ~2.1M mobility‑linked genes. In my postdoc @uio.no I use sedaDNA from lake sediments to trace past change – stay tuned for my preprint!

Mobile genetic elements shape microbial diversity and functions in thawing permafrost soils - Nature Microbiology

An 8-year soil meta-omic time series shows how mobile genetic elements shape permafrost microbial diversity and impact a range of functions, including carbon and nutrient cycling.

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At #ICP2026 Come see my poster! Nr.165 I am looking at sediment cores where plants & animals have been investigated, BUT microbes got thrown out as contamination. I kept them, and asked: as an Arctic lake turned from marine to freshwater 13,000 years ago, did its microbial community follow? (1/2)