@microbomics

Asst Professor @SMU Earth Sciences šŸ§¬šŸŒ‹ šŸŒŠ English Bulldog Enthusiast šŸ¶šŸ¾ šŸ’™ UCLA bruin for life šŸ» šŸ’›

 Dallas, TX
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Joined June 2013
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mBio@mbiojournalSep 8
Same strain, different worlds: can lab evolution predict nature? Coding mutations were highly parallel in the lab, while field evolution repeatedly targeted intergenic regions. doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01700-2ā€¦ @microbomics
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Iā€™m excited to launch Microbial Planet, a new editorial-style section of the Chase Lab website for short research dispatches on microbial ecology, evolution, environmental genomics, biogeochemistry, and microbial chemical ecology.
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The launch also re-releases two earlier essays: - Reconstructing Microbial Life from Metagenomes: MAGs as reconstructed genomic hyp, not direct observations of organisms - BGCs and the Evolution of Microbial Chemistry: links between molecular innovation, ecology, and evolution
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Iā€™ll use Microbial Planet for monthly or quarterly dispatches, plus a ā€œFrom the Literatureā€ section highlighting recent papers shaping how I think about microbial ecology and evolution. Now live on the Chase Lab website: microbomics.com/mp-dispatcheā€¦
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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrashMar 18
Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics academic.oup.com/ismej/advanā€¦

Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phageā€“bacteria...

Abstract. Diverse phageā€“bacteria communities coexist at high densities in environmental, agricultural, and human-associated microbiomes. Phageā€“bacteria coe

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#JobPost: Scripps Oceanography is hiring a tenure-track faculty position! Are you an expert in the fields of natural products chemistry, chemical ecology, pharmacology, biotechnology, and chemical and synthetic biology? Apply here: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF044ā€¦
"Join Our Team" text overlayed on a photo of the sun setting at Scripps Pier

ALT "Join Our Team" text overlayed on a photo of the sun setting at Scripps Pier

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Alexander Chase retweeted
Jason Sheltzer@JSheltzerFeb 13
AI is cool and all... but a new paper in @ScienceMagazine kind of figured out the origin of life? The paper reports the discovery of a simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.
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Genome contamination may lead to an overestimation of horizontal gene transfer inferences | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s41467-0ā€¦

Genome contamination may lead to an overestimation of horizontal gene transfer inferences

Nature Communications - Genome contamination may lead to an overestimation of horizontal gene transfer inferences

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Alexander Chase retweeted
Francisco R-Valera@frovaleraJan 30
On the biological meaning of the population pangenome: Trends in Microbiology cell.com/trends/microbiologyā€¦

On the biological meaning of the population pangenome

The prokaryotic pangenome, the full complement of genes within a species, is strikingly large. To understand how ecological forces shape this diversity, it is useful to examine the variable gene pool...

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Alexandre Soares Rosado@Rosado_ASJan 30
How Microbial Fossils Illuminate Lifeā€™s Origins asm.org/articles/2026/januarā€¦

How Microbial Fossils Illuminate Lifeā€™s Origins

Microbial fossils offer clues about how early prokaryotes shaped Earthā€™s chemistry, offering rare glimpses into the origins of life and the planetā€™s first ecosystems over 3.5 billion years ago.

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Be sure to check out our department AGUTV next week #AGU25 if youā€™re in NOLA! youtu.be/rkKNhxHh4fY?si=VfD7ā€¦
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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash8 Dec 2025
Impact of acetate on CO2 fixation pathways in thermophilic and hydrogenotrophic bacteria academic.oup.com/ismecommun/ā€¦

Impact of acetate on CO2 fixation pathways in thermophilic and hydrogenotrophic bacteria

Abstract. The bacterial-type Woodā€“Ljungdahl (WL) pathway and reductive tricarboxylic acid (rTCA) cycle are the dominant chemolithotrophic CO2 fixation path

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Jay Hartzell
@JCHartzell8 Dec 2025
A landmark moment for @SMU! The Oā€™Donnell Foundationā€™s extraordinary commitmentā€”one of the largest in SMU historyā€”will launch a pioneering energy program and expand honors opportunities for top scholars. A transformational investment in Dallas - and in our future! Read more: smu.edu/news/latest/landmarkā€¦
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šŸŒŠšŸŒŠšŸŒŠ Our PNAS paper on octocoral diterpene evolution is out - huge interdisciplinary effort led by @BurkhardtImmo @BradMoore_SIO and others @Scripps_Ocean - the first pub from our @oceanexplorer grant on the biopharmaceutical potential of the CCE šŸŖøšŸ¤æšŸ§¬ pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnā€¦

Diversification of diterpene biosynthesis occurred early in octocoral evolution | PNAS

Octocorals are the major source of marine-derived bioactive terpenoids. However, the vast majority of explored chemistry is known from shallow-wate...

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Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation | Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0ā€¦

Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation

Nature - Genomic and biochemical analyses of prokaryotic sulfur metabolism identify diverse microorganisms with the capacity to oxidize sulfide using iron(iii).

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash14 Aug 2025
Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics sciencedirect.com/science/arā€¦
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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash11 Aug 2025
Bioenergetics evolution: the link between Earthā€™s and Lifeā€™s history royalsocietypublishing.org/dā€¦

Bioenergetics evolution: the link between Earthā€™s and Lifeā€™s history

Abstract. The history of life intrigues both researchers and society, as it is human nature to question our origins. Our understanding of microbial evoluti

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Steve Marek@stephenmarek210 Jun 2025
Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24ā€¦

Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS

Recent papers by physicists, chemists, and geologists lay claim to the discovery of new principles of evolution that have somehow eluded over a cen...

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash21 May 2025
Unearthing Vertical Stratified Archaeal Community and Associated Methane Metabolism in Thermokarst Sediments enviromicro-journals.onlinelā€¦

Unearthing Vertical Stratified Archaeal Community and Associated Methane Metabolism in Thermokarst...

Vertical stratification in thermokarst lake sediments drives archaeal community assembly, with declining diversity, deterministic selection, and modular networks at depth. Taxa shifts (e.g., rising...

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