Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and…
View More Scientist In Residence: Beth Orcutt Introduces HerselfCategory: Microbes
Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-sea
I recently reported on the awesomeness of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and commented on their huge potential for transforming the way biologists do business. (Seriously, people,…
View More Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-seaMetagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans
If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing. Frankly, I’m a…
View More Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceansBetter Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is Adrift
via Toxic blob drifting in Gulf mystifies scientists | HeraldTribune.com. Just off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdido Key, an underwater mass of dead…
View More Better Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is AdriftScientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Diatoms and X-ray Whosamagidgets
In a recent paper, de Jonge et al used x-ray fluorescence tomography to give us a new perspective on how diatoms put together those phenomenally…
View More Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Diatoms and X-ray WhosamagidgetsFinding Life Where the Sun Don’t Shine
A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth. The biosphere is the zone of air, land, and water…
View More Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t ShineWhy Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!
The basic energy molecule for life is ATP, adenosine triphosphate. It fuels all those cellular reactions that life needs. To produce one mol of ATP…
View More Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf
The internets are a buzz with a new paper published in Science. You may recall I covered the new paper by Camilli et al. in…
View More Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the GulfAdopt a Microbe From the Deep
As part of the Expedition 327 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program aboard the ocean drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution, Adopt a Microbe is unleashed! From the website……
View More Adopt a Microbe From the DeepOcean Warming Melts Methane Hydrates Which Screws Us All
That’s pretty much the message of new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Large deposits of methane hydrates, i.e. methane ice, occur naturally in the seafloor…
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