Methanogenesis outside the Euryarchaeota experimentally demonstrated by three cultivation-driven studies (two from my lab)! A longš§µ.š»with me tinyurl.com/4v4fkda6tinyurl.com/yr4p7js6tinyurl.com/mtsrj6b9
The next 4 years of funding for our Methanomethylicia research are secured ā more on that soon! We are always looking for enthusiastic grad students and postdocs to join our lab. Email me a CV & a 1-2 pages motivation/research letter (I will not answer DMs) www.environmental-microbiology.com
www.environmental-microbiology.com Roland Hatzenpichler, PhD Assistant Professor Montana State University, Bozeman
Wanna remind yourself or others of the role microbes play in methane cycling? Check out the infographic Mark Belan and I just made. Available in English tinyurl.com/5jwhuurstinyurl.com/y64j5z3ttinyurl.com/3ddxxa2n
Hot spring metagenomics was done together with the JGI via a FICUS grant to me and a CSP to Viola, Anthony, Zackary Jay and myself. None of the bioinformatics in my lab would be possible without my awesome staff scientist Zackary Jay, who co-authors both studies.
My labās research on these new methanogens was sponsored by the NASA Exobiology program, with minor support from awards from the Simons Foundation and the Thermal Biology Institute at Montana State University.
several years ago from another hot spring. LCB3 is very closely related to MDKW but from a different hot spring and grows on methanol and hydrogen at 77C. LCB3 extends the upper temperature limit of both methyl-reducing and b-type cytochrome-involving methanogenesis.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the only culture of a korarchaeon (methanogenic or not) ā the only other one, Korarchaeum cryptofilum, was lost many years ago. LCB3 is a close relative of another strain, MDKW, which is represented by a MAG obtained by Luke McKay
CULTURE 3. Ca. Methanodesulfokora washburnensis LCB3 falls within the Korarchaeia! The methanogen was cultured by my (previous) postdoc Viola Krukenberg. After she left the lab experiments were continued by Anthony Kohtz who shares 1st authorship. tinyurl.com/4v4fkda6
I want to give a big shoutout to Lei Cheng & Diana Sousa who, after learning we also had a culture of a novel methanogen within the Thermoproteota, did not rush to be the first to publish but offered to publish jointly. This is how science should be done. Thank you, Lei and Diana!