Melody Lindsay

Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries This paper discusses current research on subsurface microbiology. Exploring Earth's deep and extreme subsurface environments provides critical insights into life's limits and adaptability. Subsurface...

Thrilled to share our new paper: Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. 🧪

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A lot has been happening recently - I'm thrilled to be a Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow (as of last month!), to be a part of this amazing science, and to lead the NSF SBS/BioOce PurSUiT project on cryptic microbial lineage systematics in marine sediment! (the 2nd award mentioned here 🥳)

Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles Nature Microbiology - In environments like the deep subsurface, microorganisms with long doubling times can remain metabolically active for millions of years — we propose referring to this...

Organisms that are buried alive for many thousands of years without enough energy to grow could be called "aeonophiles", so we can talk about them more easily. @drewsteen.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4tzecaxn

A Bigelow dream team was involved; including but not limited to the Center for Aquatic Cytometry, the Single Cell Genomics Center, and three amazing students 🥹.

Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment Abstract. The chemical cycles carried out by bacteria and archaea living in coastal sediments are vital aspects of benthic ecology. These ecosystems are su

So excited that this paper is out! We use a novel method to quantify rates of respiration in sediment-hosted cells, and reveal ecological impacts of oxygen and seaweed-derived carbon on flexible lineages inhabiting Coastal Maine sediment.

Excited to see the data that gets collected! Yay learning experiences in the field!!