We’ve welcomed several new undergrads into our lab over the past few months, also said goodbye to Drake and Chrissie. After completing her MS, Chrissie is beginning a new job in California and Drake has begun a MS in South Africa. We’re proud of you and miss you both! And welcome to our recent undergrad…
Author: Jena Johnson
MML Pumpkin Carving!
The Microbe Mineral lab reunited in person and masked-up for pumpkin carving on Saturday, Oct 24. It was great to get together again and welcome our newest lab member, Trinity Pryor, into our research group! Happy Halloween everyone!
Apart but together
In these stressful and uncertain times, it’s more important than ever to support each other. To facilitate this group support and community in the Microbe-Mineral Lab, we’ve been having weekly happy hours online and have started an online paper discussion group as well! Stay healthy everyone.
Happy Halloween!
The MML lab and friends had a great time carving pumpkins and making pizzas at a pre-Halloween party at Jena’s house. Happy Halloween everyone!
Welcome Alice and Chrissie!
We had a sushi-making party to welcome Alice Zhou and Chrissie Nims to the Microbe-Mineral lab! Very excited to have them both here in Ann Arbor.
Lab Taco Night
One of our new lab members, Chrissie Nims (grad student starting in the fall), was here this last weekend to find an apartment so we had a lab taco night at Jena’s house!
Sammy and Isaac at MGU
Sammy and Isaac presented posters today at the Michigan Geologic Union!
Isaac at RMGS
Proud of Isaac this weekend presenting his first conference poster at the Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium!
New paper out – removing preservation biases from the iron formation record
How much has the current record of iron formations been affected by subduction, deformation, and burial? Peter Molnar (CU-Boulder) and I tried to scale for these biases of preservation and found that the resultant record looks like there could have been extensive and long-term iron formation deposition! Check it out here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL081970
New paper out!
Excited to share an in-press review article out of the Microbe-Mineral Lab highlighting how we can infer ancient metabolisms from the mineral record! Find the paper at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.01.047