Postdoc at KAUST. Soil microbial ecologist using metagenomics to tackle climate change. Opinions are my own. (He/him)
Pretoria, South Africa
Joined March 2017
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Here's our latest research on Antarctic Cyanobacteria published in BMC Genomics: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.co…
By comparing two novel strains with Cyanobacteria from less extreme environments we were able to find stress resistance genes to likely underpin their survival 🦠🇦🇶
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SOON!!
A cost & community perspective on the barriers to microbiome data reuse:
frontiersin.org/journals/bio…
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Novel adaptive immune systems in pristine Antarctic soils @marcwvg
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
I am so happy to share our latest Antarctic research on bacterial immunity to viral infections 🦠🇦🇶: nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Many thanks to @Thuls_M for his support throughout this project!
#bacteriophage #CRISPR #antarctica
Is there anything more meta than downloading a database of viral sequences and Google being unable to scan it for viruses?
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Check out my short notes about five books about microbes in the environment.
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We are running a massive online open course on AMR databases starting end of the month. Its completely free, study at your own pace and its ~15 hours overall over the 3 weeks (although you can finish any time in a year). Please spread in your networks! coursesandconferences.wellco…
It's only a couple of weeks to go until #ISME19! I cannot wait to see all the awesome science going on in the world of microbial ecology 🦠🔬🏜️
Thank you @ISME_microbes and @Thuls_M for bringing this amazing conference to Africa for the first time 🌍
See you all in Cape Town! 🇿🇦
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OUT NOW 📢 A global atlas of soil viruses reveals unexplored biodiversity and potential biogeochemical impacts 🌎 @BioDataGanache @KHofmockel
nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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79 isolates * 2800 genes = a phylogeny that gives us important insight into what these fungi are doing... 🍄
It never ceases to amaze me how much data can be condensed into a single, meaningful figure- with the right analyses and visualization techniques, of course! 📊
ALT A phylogeny showing the relationship between 79 fungal isolates. No taxon names are indicated, but a group of the taxa are shaded in grey and there are unlabelled coloured blocks next to each taxon.
New paper alert!🎇 Here we describe the novel species Mangrovimonas cancribranchiae (named for it's isolation from the gills of mangrove crabs 🦀🦠🧫). Great team effort @KAUST_News @RSRC_KAUST @marcofusi1980
microbiologyresearch.org/con…
New pre-print alert: Excited to share our latest work on the unique relationship between Antarctic bacteria and their phages 🦠🇦🇶
Novel cas sequences, divergent evolutionary histories and more with @Thuls_M
Please read it here: researchsquare.com/article/r…
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I encourage everyone to donate to this fund in honor of @ucdavis undergrad Karim Majdi Abou Najm who was killed last week in #DavisCA
Memorial Undergraduate Student Research Award give.ucdavis.edu/VCSA/125342
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We are hiring a new postdoc to join our wonderful team in Melbourne. Focused on molecular biology and biochemistry of bacterial and archaeal hydrogenases, including Huc. Proven genetics or biochem experience needed. Email CV & cover letter if interested!
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Happy to share our recent opinion piece where we opine that dryland microbes should be central to dryland restoration efforts 🏜️🦠
A brilliant and comprehensive perspective paper led by Ramona Marasco on the essential role of microorganisms in protecting, conserving and restoring arid terrestrial ecosystems. Here the link: doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14…
