The 1st annual Southern Geobiology Symposium will be hosted at UTMSI in fall 2026
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Questions may be directed to co-chairs, Penny Demetriades ([email protected]) and John Hinkle ([email protected])
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Baker Lab 2025
The container is our field gear for the research expedition for Uruguay.
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The container is our field gear for the research expedition for Uruguay.
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Title: The phylogeny and metabolism underlying the global dominance of the freshwater Nanopelagicaceae lineage
Short Talk Symposia: Hot Topics in Microbial Diversity and Systematics
Session 6/21/2025 1:45- 3:45:00 403A
Presentation Time: 3:15:00 PM
Short Talk Symposia: Hot Topics in Microbial Diversity and Systematics
Session 6/21/2025 1:45- 3:45:00 403A
Presentation Time: 3:15:00 PM
Tomorrow at 12:45-1:30 in the EEB Track Hub in the poster hall #ASMmicrobe I am talking about microbial diversity including Asgard archaea, and an expanded tree of life from marine sediments.
Today at ASM Microbe - Carbon Cycling & Methylotrophy In Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Sediments Presentation Number: 5699 Date: Friday June 20th Time - Poster (10:30-11:30am, 4-5pm) AND Rapid Fire Talk (11:45-12:30pm) @emilyraehyde.bsky.social
An opinion in The Scientist by @pedroleao.bsky.social about Asgard archaeal immune systems. www.the-scientist.com/science-thri...
Science Thrives on Trust: Why Collaboration Is Our Greatest Strength
In a competitive academic world, building bridges instead of walls may be our most powerful tool to accelerate discovery and rebuild public trust in science.
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How did life begin & why does it matter? A new ASM report, supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, explores the origins of microbial life & how understanding it can help tackle some of humanity’s biggest questions around climate, biotech & more. Press release➡️ asm.org/press-releas...
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added more mappings below ;) We fundamentally disagree with their findings. The potential combination is extremely low. I say potential because we are looking more closely at it. But overall, not much at all.
Well said, but well represented or accurate? See the mappings I provided.
Well said, but not well represented in the paper. Another example, B6, they claim to be contaminated (shown in Fig 2a). Green are the correct reads from which the MAG was generated. Location markers used for phylogeny in Eme et al in pink.
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We need you--every single one of you-- in the US to stand up, right now, and fight for NSF, NIH, USGS, NASA, USDA. Agencies Congress empowered to serve the public with impactful science and innovation. This is not a drill. This is our last stand. After this, there will be nothing left to fight for.
The implications are Nature level, but this is not what we are finding in the data.
This ^^^^ My first thought! The potential contamination messing up phylogeny makes no sense.
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We must have been super lucky that contamination was all from different lineages to each Njord MAG and yet all from the same clade of unknown Asgard so that Njord form monophyletic groups within Asgards in individual gene trees.
Also odd to completely ignore the widespread oxygen, nitrate and ETC in Haimdall! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor
Asgard archaea were pivotal in the origin of complex cellular life. Hodarchaeales (Asgardarchaeota class Heimdallarchaeia) were recently shown to be the closest relatives of eukaryotes. However, limit...
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Pink is the sample the MAG came from! Are there misbinned contigs, perhaps, we are checking now… However, Njordarchaeales are commonly removed from phylogenies due to their unique nature.
What is the point - do those contigs have markers that impact the phylogenies? That is not described, we are checking…
We have a lot to say about this. I start by saying if you are going to check a bin/assembly I would map the reads it came from, that was not done.