Melody Lindsay
@melroselane.bsky.social
research scientist thinking about extreme environments, activity of microbial cells, and the potential for life 🌌🌎🪨💦✨🦠🔬🤷♀️
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 🥳)
August 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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 🥳)
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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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June 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
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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March 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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.
Excited to see the data that gets collected! Yay learning experiences in the field!!
When the grant supplies finally arrive 😭 so excited for these Go Pros to get out to our teachers and into the field!
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March 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Excited to see the data that gets collected! Yay learning experiences in the field!!