I am proud to announce that Ms. Jessica Mitchell and Mr. Brandon Enalls will be completing their doctoral degree requirements this semester.
Ms. Mitchell will be holding her public defense on April 27th, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Mr. Enalls will be holding his public defense on May 13th, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
The details of their online defense (ZOOM link etc) will be sent out by the Dept of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. I look forward to seeing you there!
Dear friends,
The time has come to update our website. Stay tuned for a whole new look!!!
Here are some of the publications from the Girguis lab and collaborators in 2016:
Bradley, A.S., Leavitt, W.D., Schmidt, M., Knoll, A.H., Girguis, P.R. and Johnston, D.T., 2016. Patterns of sulfur isotope fractionation during microbial sulfate reduction. Geobiology, 14(1), pp.91-101.
Meier, D.V., Bach, W., Girguis, P.R., Gruber‐Vodicka, H.R., Reeves, E.P., Richter, M., Vidoudez, C., Amann, R. and Meyerdierks, A., 2016. Heterotrophic Proteobacteria in the vicinity of diffuse hydrothermal venting. Environmental microbiology.
Padilla, C.C., Bristow, L.A., Sarode, N., Garcia-Robledo, E., Ramírez, E.G., Benson, C.R., Bourbonnais, A., Altabet, M.A., Girguis, P.R., Thamdrup, B. and Stewart, F.J., 2016. NC10 bacteria in marine oxygen minimum zones. The ISME journal.
Meyer, J.L., Jaekel, U., Tully, B.J., Glazer, B.T., Wheat, C.G., Lin, H.T., Hsieh, C.C., Cowen, J.P., Hulme, S.M., Girguis, P.R. and Huber, J.A., 2016. A distinct and active bacterial community in cold oxygenated fluids circulating beneath the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Scientific reports, 6.
Picard, A., Gartman, A. and Girguis, P.R., 2016. What do we really know about the role of microorganisms in iron sulfide mineral formation?. Frontiers in Earth Science, 4, p.68.
Levin, L., Girguis, P.R., German, C.R., Brennan, M.L., Tuzun, S., Wagner, J., Smart, C., Kruger, A., Inderbitzen, K., Le, J. and Martinez, M., 2016. Exploration and discovery of methane seeps and associated communities in the California Borderland. Oceanography
Ge, Z., Girguis, P.R. and Buie, C.R., 2016. Nanoporous microscale microbial incubators. Lab on a Chip, 16(3), pp.480-488.
Tang, T., Mohr, W., Sattin, S.R., Rogers, D.R., Girguis, P.R. and Pearson, A., 2016. Geochemically distinct carbon isotope distributions in Allochromatium vinosum DSM 180T grown photoautotrophically and photoheterotrophically. Geobiology.
Maher, W.A., Duncan, E., Dilly, G., Foster, S., Krikowa, F., Lombi, E., Scheckel, K. and Girguis, P., 2016. Arsenic concentrations and species in three hydrothermal vent worms, Ridgeia piscesae, Paralvinella sulficola and Paralvinella palmiformis. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 116, pp.41-48.
Cordes, E.E., Michel, A.P., Petersen, J.M., Wankel, S.D., Ansorge, R., Girguis, P.R., Leisch, N., Smart, C., Roman, C., Wetzel, S. and Vidoudez, C., 2016. ROV Hercules Investigates Brine Lakes on the Bottom of the Ocean. Oceanography.
Girguis, P., 2016. Microbial ecology: Here, there and everywhere. Nature microbiology, 1, p.16123.
Seston, S.L., Beinart, R.A., Sarode, N., Shockey, A.C., Ranjan, P., Ganesh, S., Girguis, P.R. and Stewart, F.J., 2016. Metatranscriptional response of chemoautotrophic Ifremeria nautilei endosymbionts to differing sulfur regimes. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7.
Enjoy your bedtime reading friends, and we hope to see you in 2017.
PRG
Here’s a nice article about our colleague Anna Michel and former Girguis lab postdoc Scott Wankel. It talks about their efforts to improve underwater spectroscopy. Learn all about it here:
http://www.marinetechnologynews.com/news/there-laser-light-538129
Here’s a nice article in Popular Science by Ian Graber-Stiehl, which focuses on the ocean observing systems. It’s a nice read, so enjoy!
http://www.popsci.com/national-science-foundation-is-on-voyage-for-big-data
Every once in a while, a journalist does their homework and talks to many scientists in the field, synthesizing their thoughts and ideas into a coherent perspective on a topic. Doug Struck is one such journalist, and did a fine job in writing this article.
It is my great pleasure to congratulate Heather Olins on earning her Ph.D. Heather has been a wonderful student, friend and mentor, and her presence in the lab will be dearly missed. That said, I am so thrilled and proud of her decision to teach at the Fessenden School, where she will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the lives of many students and teachers. I also intend to keep working with Heather however I can, so here’s to many long years of collaboration and friendship!
— Pete
Heather Olins and me in front of the Biolabs at Harvard
Brandon Enails is the latest member of the Girguis lab to receive a prestigious NSF predoctoral fellowship. We are all very proud of Brandon, and know that he’ll make great use of those resources. Congratulations again Brandon!
Another professional moment of joy. Our latest paper is out in Nature Communications on…wait for it….whale gut microbes! Once upon a time, I swore I’d never study marine mammals. The big whales, however, are really cool…almost as cool as their gut flora. Here’s to my wonderful students Jon Sanders and Annabel Beichman!
To read our open access paper, visit:
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150922/ncomms9285/full/ncomms9285.html
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