MSU Extreme Biology

Thermophiles 🔥 Polar Science 🧊 Astrobiology 👾 Scientists @montanastate representing a wide spectrum of extremophile and origins of life research

[MSU Extreme Biology @MSUExtremeBio]

Hello! We are scientists @montanastate across several departments who research life in extreme environments. Follow us if you are interested in extremophiles, astrobiology, or origins of life research 🌍

[Danielle E. Marias Ulrich, PhD (서윤주) @danielleemarias]

Congratulations to rockstar PhD candidate @hannah_goemann for being awarded a NIFA predoctoral fellowship to torture some plants (as we do!) and examine plant-microbe interactions and root exudates!!!! 👏 🥳

[George Schaible @SchaibleGeorge]

First issue of the @ISMEJournal showing the image I took of the multicellular magnetotactic bacteria I study. The image will grace the cover of the journal for the entire year of 2022! What an honor! Huge thanks to @environmicrobio for the opportunity!

[James Bradley @DrBradBrad]

❄️ GEO-BIO POST-DOC OPPORTUNITY ❄️
Join @NERCscience #Cryo365 working on Arctic glacier geomicrobiology with @arwynedwards and others @AberUni. 30 month position, year-round Arctic fieldwork in Svalbard, multi-omics approaches, superb international team.
https://t.co/fntcYdzG6w

[The Center for Biofilm Engineering @BiofilmFirst]

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#FunFriday #BiofilmFirst
https://t.co/Vrw4d8sg9W

[MSU Extreme Biology @MSUExtremeBio]

Congrats to all of #MontanaState's Fall 2021 graduates! Be proud of your accomplishment! Here's to even brighter futures. #catgrad21

[Montana State University @montanastate]

Congratulations to all of #MontanaState's fall 2021 graduates! 💙💛 #CatGrad21

Full album: https://t.co/ofjJf671hM

[Network for Life Detection (NfoLD) @LifeDetection]

Great opportunity for those working on agnostic biosignatures and approaches for detecting life as we don't know it to present their work at #AbSciCon22!

Submit an abstract here by Jan 19th: https://t.co/99inPuz0hF

#astrobiology #NFoLD

[MSU Extreme Biology @MSUExtremeBio]

Hello, do you follow us and have an Instagram? If so, please follow our new TBI Instagram account for more research on life in extreme environments!

https://t.co/dxISUTkOgj

[The Center for Biofilm Engineering @BiofilmFirst]

#Biofilm research is booming! Since the founding of the #CBE in 1990, the number of biofilm papers published has grown from 206 to a staggering 83,578. #biofilmfirst #MontanaState

[MSU Extreme Biology @MSUExtremeBio]

#NSFNRT #NSFfunded #Thermophiles #Extremophiles #TBI #CBE #Biofilm

[MSU Extreme Biology @MSUExtremeBio]

PhD students sought for fellowship in “extreme biofilms” at Montana State Univ. You would gain professional development & experience researching biofilms in extreme systems. Apply by 1/28. Stipends of $34k are available for 2 years of a PhD program.

https://t.co/uonbLMN5MQ

[JP Balmonte @jpbacteria]

Please RT. The Danish @Hadal_Center & @Nordcee at Univ. Southern Denmark is looking for 3 PhD students to study: Microbial Metabolisms in Deep Sea & Hadal Systems; Deep-Sea Microbial Degradation of Organic Matter; Benthic Carbon & Nutrient Cycling After Sediment Resuspension. 1/n

[MSU Extreme Biology @MSUExtremeBio]

@YellowstoneNPS @AltYelloNatPark

[Feng Zhang @zhangf]

4/ Using phylogenetic analysis and enabled by collaborator (@GCACTAATTGAGAAC, MDlakic, @Ivan_Bilinski) samples from Yellowstone Lake, we identified a new Cas9 subtype II-D and show that CRISPR-Cas9 likely evolved from ancestral OMEGA systems.

[Feng Zhang @zhangf]

CRISPR technologies are powerful gene editing tools because they are programmable. We are excited to describe 3 new programmable systems, IscB, IsrB, and TnpB, some of the most abundant genes on the planet, with potential for gene editing. @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/dY8FXBYIM8

[Donato Giovannelli @d_giovannelli]

The enrollment procedure @LMBExE @UninaIT for European and Italian students is now open! Come join us to study the most remote locations of our planet!

https://t.co/WKQvTZfb9q

#masterprogram #master #masterdegree #university #astrobiology #extremeenvironments

[Thelma Madzima, Ph.D @thelma_madzima]

Here is a radical idea:

How about requiring senior faculty to express their commitments & contributions to DEI before asking junior faculty and applicants to write DEI statements that many aren’t even qualified to evaluate because they have never done the work

I said it 🙊

[MSU Extreme Biology @MSUExtremeBio]

@RikaEAnderson @CarletonCollege @oceanobserv Congratulations!

[Amanda Bendia @amanda_bendia]

Our new paper is out! #Metagenomics and metagenome-assembled genomes #MAGs of microbial communities across extreme temperature gradients on Deception Island volcano #Antarctica https://t.co/vBn51pIuQV

[MSU Extreme Biology @MSUExtremeBio]

Researchers @EMSLscience, with @environmicrobio & Qian Wang @montanastate published a new mRNA-FISH protocol. fliFISH uses on/off cycles of photo-switch dyes to set predetermined threshold for distinguishing true signal from background noise. Read it here: https://t.co/OILGVpe3xk