Alexander Chase

Asst Professor @SMU Earth Sciences 🧬🌋 🌊 English Bulldog Enthusiast 🐶🐾
💙 UCLA bruin for life 🐻 💛

[mBio @mbiojournal]

Same strain, different worlds: can lab evolution predict nature? Coding mutations were highly parallel in the lab, while field evolution repeatedly targeted intergenic regions. https://t.co/o8LkleDesW @microbomics

[Alexander Chase @microbomics]

I’ll use Microbial Planet for monthly or quarterly dispatches, plus a “From the Literature” section highlighting recent papers shaping how I think about microbial ecology and evolution.

Now live on the Chase Lab website: https://t.co/Bl3fGHRWsa

[Alexander Chase @microbomics]

I’m excited to launch Microbial Planet, a new editorial-style section of the Chase Lab website for short research dispatches on microbial ecology, evolution, environmental genomics, biogeochemistry, and microbial chemical ecology.

[Alexander Chase @microbomics]

The launch also re-releases two earlier essays:
- Reconstructing Microbial Life from Metagenomes: MAGs as reconstructed genomic hyp, not direct observations of organisms
- BGCs and the Evolution of Microbial Chemistry: links between molecular innovation, ecology, and evolution

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics https://t.co/dWwMhCt7cE

[Scripps Institution of Oceanography @Scripps_Ocean]

#JobPost: Scripps Oceanography is hiring a tenure-track faculty position! Are you an expert in the fields of natural products chemistry, chemical ecology, pharmacology, biotechnology, and chemical and synthetic biology? Apply here: https://t.co/ozkpw5nc21

[Jason Sheltzer @JSheltzer]

AI is cool and all... but a new paper in @ScienceMagazine kind of figured out the origin of life?

The paper reports the discovery of a simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.

[Huiluo Cao 曹慧荦 @hlcao]

Genome contamination may lead to an overestimation of horizontal gene transfer inferences | Nature Communications https://t.co/Jp79tfVjpD

[Francisco R-Valera @frovalera]

On the biological meaning of the population pangenome: Trends in Microbiology https://t.co/2TR9l1UR6P

[Alexandre Soares Rosado @Rosado_AS]

How Microbial Fossils Illuminate Life’s Origins https://t.co/NbeYdv9JTF

[Alexander Chase @microbomics]

Be sure to check out our department AGUTV next week #AGU25 if you’re in NOLA!

https://t.co/4GRuKUedOc

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Impact of acetate on CO2 fixation pathways in thermophilic and hydrogenotrophic bacteria https://t.co/Wcbfw7hdAl

[Jay Hartzell @JCHartzell]

A landmark moment for @SMU!
The O’Donnell Foundation’s extraordinary commitment—one of the largest in SMU history—will launch a pioneering energy program and expand honors opportunities for top scholars. A transformational investment in Dallas - and in our future!

Read more: https://t.co/VokCqXUBiS

[Alexander Chase @microbomics]

🌊🌊🌊 Our PNAS paper on octocoral diterpene evolution is out - huge interdisciplinary effort led by @BurkhardtImmo @BradMoore_SIO and others @Scripps_Ocean - the first pub from our @oceanexplorer grant on the biopharmaceutical potential of the CCE 🪸🤿🧬
https://t.co/vOChDAU4JM

[Tominaga K. (tomiken) @pacyc1841]

Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation | Nature https://t.co/lzHuNtgtiM

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics https://t.co/jYyKvJt6pP

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Bioenergetics evolution: the link between Earth’s and Life’s history https://t.co/0xm3QzXXCi

[Steve Marek @stephenmarek2]

Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS https://t.co/p0fUprgShL

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Unearthing Vertical Stratified Archaeal Community and Associated Methane Metabolism in Thermokarst Sediments https://t.co/l6OuDbHBMZ