We use culture independent techniques (genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) to understand the ecology and evolution of microbial communities.

Congrats to Kiley Seitz for completing your PhD!

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Two papers on a 20 year study of a Freshwater Lake out today. January 3, 2025
NPR story on Asgard archaea December 11, 2024
New preprint out today – implicating ANME archaea in methane production October 31, 2024
Today we have a fun visit from Scott Cater’s high school class from Dripping Springs October 28, 2024
Youtube video explaining our recent study on role of Asgard in eukaryotic immune systems October 15, 2024
New commentary of a interesting paper in mBio published today August 29, 2024
(no title) August 21, 2024
New study characterizing complete Asgard archaea genomes from soils published in Nature Communications July 31, 2024
New study on defense systems in Asgard archaea published in Nature Communications July 31, 2024
20 year study of microbial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake (Lake Mendota) preprint out! February 6, 2024
New preprint describing novel lineages of Asgard archaea from complete genomes. December 12, 2023
New preprint about novel viral defense systems in Asgard Archaea! December 12, 2023
New publication describing the genomic expansion of the bacteria predominate in marine sediments June 19, 2023
New paper published in Nature about our microbial ancestors, the Hodarchaeales June 14, 2023
Congrats to Sophie Hoefner on graduating from UT! May 16, 2023

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