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@EricBecraft
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Associate professor at the University of North Alabama. Microbial ecology and evolution. Cats. Roar Lions! Hook em!
Alabama, USA
Joined May 2014
Microbiology at its weirdest! #livingfossils #Desulforudis #deepsubsurface @ISMEJournal Blog: Darwin’s finches in SLOW motion https://t.co/3FfQjJTLVP Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage https://t.co/fOioEvJjUk
nature.com
The ISME Journal - Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage
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🚨 Looking to mentor a postdoc applicant for the 2026 Walder Foundation Biota Fellowship! Project: microbes, nutrients in the MS River. 💵 $70k–$73.5k/yr 🔬 Aquatic micro, biogeochem, metagenomics? Let’s talk! Info here: https://t.co/z3IFfslJXy
#MicrobialEcology #BiotaFellowship
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I would bet that Don Bryant knew more about phototrophic physiology than anyone who has ever lived on Earth. https://t.co/3S1kqGOmdV
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Photosynthesis Research -
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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of Biology job opening at the University of North Alabama. There are currently many specializations that would compliment the department. https://t.co/nxbnxzsh9G
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📢 PLEASE RT! ☁️ M2 Masters Internship in Atmosphere Habitability Modelling 🎓 6-month paid opportunity starting early 2025 🦠 Investigate habitability & microbial ecology of the atmosphere 💻 Theoretical & numerical modelling ☀️ Marseille, France 👨🔬 @DrBradBrad @soundslikealloy
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I just wanted to thank @DOEKBase for such an amazing platform bringing together so many bioinformatic tools in one easy to use place. Every time I try another program and browse the results I giggle about how fun and easy it is. Thank you!
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I know there are mixed feelings about MDPI, but what journal doesn't have problems? Good science is good science. Excellent special issue focusing on phototrophic lineages of bacteria: https://t.co/36TumzGkd7 Here is our paper on Green Sulfur Bacteria: https://t.co/P7F6mvf31C
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Three strains of thermophilic green sulfur bacteria (GSB) are known; all are from microbial mats in hot springs in Rotorua, New Zealand (NZ) and belong to the species Chlorobaculum tepidum. Here, we...
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Omnitrophota are ultra-small (~0.2 μm) cells that are found in water, sediments and soils world-wide. Omnitrophota appear have genomic characteristics suggesting host-associated lifestyles consistent with obligate bacterial predators. https://t.co/h2pPhxPX5C
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Nature Microbiology - A compendium of Omnitrophota genomes is coupled with cell size and qSIP analyses to predict the physiology and lifestyle of this enigmatic phylum.
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I'm excited to hire a postdoc to study soil microbial communities in remnant and restored prairies! Position starts as soon as January. See job ad and application info: https://t.co/9infb6BM5O Come join our lab group! Or consider if you know someone who would be a great fit.
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I'm so sad to say that my excellent colleague and friend Tullis C. Onstott passed away after a long illness, surrounded by family. His relentless optimism, infectious laugh, and deep knowledge of subsurface biogeochemistry made him a ray of light for many of us. We will miss him.
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After a long journey, we finally share our publication of the Metabolic potential of the Deep Ocean Microbiome from Malaspina Expedition 2010 ⛴️🌎 published with @SpringerNature in @CommsBio. #openaccess in this link 👇 https://t.co/ZfmyA0ikSU
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Communications Biology - Silvia Acinas et al. report the Malaspina Gene Database, a gene catalogue from deep ocean microbes and the Malaspina Deep Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs) which is made...
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Activity-guided single-cell genomics as a tool to guide novel biosynthetic discovery. Cool stuff! :) https://t.co/lsA1O3LqaK
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While thousands of environmental metagenomes have been mined for the presence of novel biosynthetic gene clusters, such computational predictions do not provide evidence of their in vivo biosynthetic...
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Nice story on our recent ISME paper examining evolutionary stasis in Desulforudis populations on three continents. @TheEconomist @rstepanauskas
https://t.co/0ZGjMuSipL
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Its genes suggest it may be unchanged since the Jurassic
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Microbe may have been in evolutionary stasis for millions of years. @EricBecraft @north_alabama @rstepanauskas @BigelowLab
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Living fossils: Microbe discovered in evolutionary stasis for millions of years https://t.co/9YkeMiLOop via @physorg_com This is amazing! Great work @EricBecraft et al.!
phys.org
It's like something out of science fiction. Research led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has revealed that a group of microbes, which feed off chemical reactions triggered by radioactivity,...
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Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage @UNACOAS @UNAFlorAla @unaresearch @north_alabama
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I am so happy to announce our postdoc opening is live! Check it out if you would like to join our @NSF Rules of Life interdisciplinary team studying the relationship between prairie plant roots and soil microbes! @AndrewLHipp
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