Assist Prof of Earth Sciences at SMU Microbial ecologist 🔬🦠 English bulldog enthusiast 🐶🐾https://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3msizasgg722gNew paper out today in ES&T! 🎉 This one started with me sitting in a seminar about gas transport thinking: okay, but what about the microbes? A few years, some confusing metagenomes, unexpected methanotrophs, and a crash course in stable-isotope geochemistry later... https://pubs.acs.org/esthag/article/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6c03515/5250133/A-Diffusion-Driven-CH4-O2-Boundary-Structures07 Aug 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3msizasgg722ghttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3mnsozkut7c2pI’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.08 Jun 2026 22:08 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnsozkut7c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3mjpnj23by22aman sometimes I absolutely love this job, but the other side really bums me out... after 9mo review on career, I get: "we know that it does! We have know this for decades!" "intellectual novelty...is non-existent" "PI isn't corr author...calls to question prior exp. as claimed" "low productivity"17 Apr 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpnj23by22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3mjkffgv5ek2aAlways love papers blending ecology and evolution, should be a fun read! Emergence of alternative stable states in microbial communities undergoing horizontal gene transfer elifesciences.org/articles/99593 https://elifesciences.org/articles/9959315 Apr 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkffgv5ek2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3m6z7ys74522s🌊🌊🌊 Our PNAS paper on octocoral diterpene evolution is out - a huge interdisciplinary effort led by @immo-burkhardt.bsky.social and the first publication from our @noaa.gov grant on the biopharmaceutical potential of the CCE🪸🤿🧬 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.252027912202 Dec 2025 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6z7ys74522shttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3m4gkupq6x22v🧫 Graduate students wanted - microbial edition The Chase Lab at SMU Earth Sciences is looking for microbial humans: adaptive, collaborative, and occasionally anaerobic. If you get excited about connecting sequence data to actual biology, come join the experiment. 🌍 Dallas, TX 🔗 microbomics.com30 Oct 2025 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4gkupq6x22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lwf725lrzc2dStarted off as a reading group and led to a nice mini-review of microbiome evolution in natural communities. Complete credit to Abby for leading this fun collab! #mevosky Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2025.10265414 Aug 2025 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwf725lrzc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3ltrrtcokcc2mNew work led by the amazing @aprillukowski.bsky.social lab. Love working on these interdisciplinary projects discovering new chemical diversity in nature. Microbes are the best chemists! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5c0049212 Jul 2025 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltrrtcokcc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lrvxwm56pk2rEn route to ASM Microbe. Excited to be back in CA. Let me know if you’re also going and want to grab a coffee to discuss some science 🙌🏻18 Jun 2025 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrvxwm56pk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lpmbskyte22tWhen is microbial cross-feeding evolutionarily stable? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.16.654511v220 May 2025 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpmbskyte22thttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lpjlg662uk2oso is it like even worth starting to prepare a CAREER grant??? 🤷‍♂️19 May 2025 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjlg662uk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lnnein5ink2fLove this title! My ecology class reads the original Hutchinson paper to start the semester every year. #niches Paradox of the Sub-Plankton: Plausible Mechanisms andOpen Problems Underlying Strain-Level Diversity inMicrobial Communities https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.7009425 Apr 2025 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnnein5ink2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lnimy6el6s2cIf you're in DFW next week, come join us for our 3rd Annual SMU Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources (EENR) Colloquium. Exciting invited speakers and panels addressing science, industry, and law about pressing #envsci issues 📍 SMU 📅 Friday May 2 🌎🌱🛰️🍃♻️💡23 Apr 2025 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnimy6el6s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lmu6lb3luk2tIf anyone is teaching environmental science #Envsci I highly recommend showing students this interactive world map of the ocean-atmosphere interactions 🌎 🌊 🌬️ classic.nullschool.net https://classic.nullschool.net/15 Apr 2025 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmu6lb3luk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lma55krmyk22really cool paper on RiPPs that binds to a new ribosomal site, inhibits translation elongation and induces miscoding in G+ and G- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08723-707 Apr 2025 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lma55krmyk22https://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3lkvncmml7c22https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08678-921 Mar 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkvncmml7c22https://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3ljuy7wkle22k“species composition and functional properties of tropical American forests (and possibly all tropical forests) are increasingly out of equilibrium with local climate” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl541408 Mar 2025 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljuy7wkle22khttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3ljndqmfkj22e#mevosky Last semester: reading group on micro evolution - trying to understand in natural communities. Wanted to share! 🧬🦠 1. Start with THE classic paper on MAGs Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment https://www.nature.com/articles/nature0234005 Mar 2025 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljndqmfkj22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/microbomics.bsky.social/post/3ljncb7auvc2eNeed a reading group or something to catch-up on some amazing papers!! A vast repertoire of secondary metabolites potentially influences community dynamics and biogeochemical processes in cold seeps | Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adl228105 Mar 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:6tpal4t6xtpuvoaod5efbczm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljncb7auvc2e