Today, MGI Associate Professor Annette Rowe gave her Promotion Seminar: "Eating Rocks! Microbes gaining electrons from minerals, electrodes and other microbes" to a standing-room only crowd. Thank you for a fantastic talk!

Planetary microbiology explores how ancient microbial innovations reshaped our planet and continue to guide our search for life on Mars, Europa, and across the cosmos.

New editorial from the lab: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org

It has been great fun to work with Aaron Puri's team @awpuri.bsky.social on this project. InverSIP is a clever tool for linking genotype and phenotype.

Inverse stable isotope probing–metabolomics (InverSIP) identifies an iron acquisition system in a methane-oxidizing... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sulfide Oxidation Products Support Microbial Metabolism at Interface Environments in a Marine‐Like Serpentinizing Spring in Northern California onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

MGI assoc prof Matt Schrenk and grad student Sarah Gonzalez are studying microbial biofilms in extreme Earth environments to unlock clues about life on Mars! Their work in Costa Rica’s high-pH springs could inform missions in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Read more: tinyurl.com/yc4zjrwc

Nice to be out on the water taking samples! Fun teaching students over looked things like backing up a trailer and how to drive a boat! Also rinse those bottles! @mnseagrant.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

Meet our 2025 Awardees! Alexandra Grabowski from @MichiganStateU received an Undergraduate Research Grant award for “Microbial Biofilms and their Implications for Life Detection in Serpentinizing Systems.”

If you are into subsurface microbiology, hydrogen and serpentinization, this is a great read (in my biased opinion) from Dan Colman.
See what you think!
Microbial ecology of serpentinite-hosted ecosystems url:https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf029/8019724

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, a cherished member of the MSU community and a Professor in MGI & the Small Animal Clinical Science department.

Read about her extraordinary legacy here:
tinyurl.com/22ks8r8e

I'm living vicariously through my PhD student who is on a research cruise this month to collect samples from hydrothermal vents. Follow along on their cruise blog. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/05ed...

Hi y'all! Know any recent or upcoming college graduates who are interested in microbiology and looking for (full-time! paid!) research experience? Please point them towards RaMP! Darian Doakes and I will be co-mentors for an MGE project that I think is going to be really cool. Apps+recs due 5/25

Editor in Chief being “moi” 😀

Enjoy this great articles from the latest issue of #AppliedAndEnvironmentalMicrobiology

Ross Sea expedition team member spotlight:
Lydia is the microbe team lead on this expedition. She has an incredible amount of field work and lab experience and has been keeping team morale high. When she has spare time on the ship, she likes to watch for and take photos of wildlife 🐧🐳🦭 #nsffunded

Heterogeneity of rock-hosted microbial communities in a serpentinizing aquifer of the Coast Range Ophiolite www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs

One of my favorite science stories linking fundamental life and earth sciences with a many-over billions of dollars industry while revolutionizing modern biology. You never know what we will find in nature… #sciencematters

Our team in the Ross Sea has finished gathering cores from our first transect, bringing our total to 11 cores! Our microbe team and the larger coring group have worked incredibly well together, and now we have a few days off while other science groups collect their samples.
#nsffunded

Excited to have Jill Banfield present the opening keynote at the IBSE Microbiome Symposium at IIT Madras yesterday.