Update, 2009

Well, I hope this isn't a trend - updating my site only annually! Anyway, some nice news to relate. First, I have a manuscript recently published in the Nature ISME Journal with my friend and colleague Jamie Foster on the subject of cyanobacteria in marine stromatolites. Currently, this article is freely available to download. Also, Jen Blank and I have published an article on the alkaline spring system in the Del Puerto Ophiolite (described in an earlier post). This article is available as a corrected proof. Also, quite exciting, as part of the research with my new laboratory, we have just described a new species of Geobacter, name Geobacter daltonii FRC-32. This article is now in press in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM). Amazingly, G. daltonii and its nearest neighbor G. uraniireducens Rf4, are highly similar by 16S rRNA gene sequence (98.1% similar), but have divergent genomes (21% by DNA-DNA hybridization analysis). This should be published and available in the near future.