Morgan Sobol

Assistant Professor, Texas State University. Microbial Ecology ◊ Astrobiology ◊ Bioinformatics. Interested in early life evolution 🔭🧬🦠 @msobol.bsky.social

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

I’m thrilled to be opening my lab at @txst in the @Txstbiology dept. this January!! We will be studying early microbial ecology and evolution. 🦠 🌎 I’m extremely grateful for the support of my mentors, colleagues, family, and friends! ❤️ Contact me for openings. #newPI #1stgen

[Betül Kaçar @betulland]

Our new paper, out today! We resurrected an enzyme first used by life on Earth 3 billion years ago. We validated a #biosignature in rocks that helps reveal ancient life on Earth to guide the search for ancient life on other worlds! @NASA #astrobiology

https://t.co/Em0bovaqED

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

@jobRxiv This position has been filled.

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

@jobRxiv This position has been filled.

[Dr. Christopher E. Carr @c_e_carr]

The Earth is in space. Explore it. For health. For wealth. For humanity.

[Ancient Biology @KacarLab]

How did life begin, and why does it matter today? Proud to be one of the organizers of a new @ASMicrobiology report supported by the @MooreFound, exploring microbial origins & how they inform biotech, climate, and search for life in the universe. ➡️ https://t.co/B7wndGWkPv

[Ancient Biology @KacarLab]

🚨New preprint!

Origins of life research is fragmented across disciplines.

We built #ChemOrigins, a community curated searchable database of experimental prebiotic chemistry.

Read ➡️ https://t.co/INlO81fvUb

Visit ➡️
https://t.co/AkYvYeLxOn

For feedback contact: @BrZuviria!

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

@RaulGoch @txst Welcome to the @Txstbiology department Raúl! 😊

[PCE3 @PCE3_Sci]

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Luckily, The Planetary Society has made it extremely easy to advocate to your member(s) of Congress. Please, click the links below and TAKE ACTION!

[Ancient Biology @KacarLab]

🚨New preprint alert!🚨

Biology’s been metal since the very beginning🤘

We mapped Mo-dependent pathways across microbes and show this reliance emerged before oxygen showed up. Our results challenge assumptions about Mo scarcity on early Earth. @UWBact
https://t.co/dfHtE6zgcG

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

@Extreme_GeoBio So sorry to hear that. It’s not fair!

[Ancient Biology @KacarLab]

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨

Our lab is hiring scientists to study enzyme evolution across geologic time. Learn more about one of our projects here:⬇️ https://t.co/18Q4jZ4xBK

Folks who recently lost jobs are especially encouraged to apply! #ScienceJobs Contact: https://t.co/RLVz9SQIrm

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

@ArlinStoltzfus For a second I thought this was Arrival of the Fittest by Andreas Wagner, but seems they are two different books with the same title 🤔 I can also recommend Wagner’s book as well!

[Zachary Ardern 🧬 @zachary_ardern]

I'm excited to be co-hosting a new seminar series on Protein Structure Evolution.
Talk 1: Andrei Lupas Topic: "Highly repetitive genomic ORFs: a source of new fibrous proteins?"
📅 Feb. 11, 3PM GMT
🔗 https://t.co/c5p9gO8Q92
Please share!

[Geomicrobiology Group @Extreme_GeoBio]

Opportunity for a Masters, PhD student, and Post doc at the University of South Alabama/Dauphin Island Sea Lab to work on an EPA-funded water quality project! More information on the job descriptions available at https://t.co/ks7m7Rf834
Please share! :)

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

@betulland @txst @Txstbiology Thank you! You all will be dearly missed 🫶🏻

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

I’m thrilled to be opening my lab at @txst in the @Txstbiology dept. this January!! We will be studying early microbial ecology and evolution. 🦠 🌎 I’m extremely grateful for the support of my mentors, colleagues, family, and friends! ❤️ Contact me for openings. #newPI #1stgen

[Astrobiology @astrobiology]

Nitrogenase Structural Evolution Across Earth’s History
https://t.co/mFTy9rOTS0 #astrobiology #genomics #evolution

[Ancient Biology @KacarLab]

Out today! 🚨 We explore how planetary oxidation ~2.5 billion years ago shaped the puzzling history of metal use in nitrogenase, key to nitrogen fixation! 🌍🔬

https://t.co/DIe5KJ6gbd

work led by @MorganMicro, @hollyr_rucker, in collab. with Eric Libby & Ariel Anbar. @UWBact

[Morgan Sobol @MorganMicro]

Come be my colleague @txst @Txstbiology! 😁

[David Rodriguez @texcroc]

@TXST and @Txstbiology invites applications for an open rank position in Aquatic Microbiology specializing in the study of microbiomes of aquatic resources (broadly defined) 🦠🧬🖥️🌊🚰����🏊‍♂️🔬🐸🐟🦐🪼🌱👨‍🌾🦟
More info here: https://t.co/PVxRMd3qwM
Apply here: https://t.co/TU38zBbYz7

[Bill Sullivan @wjsullivan]

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