Highlights

Monday, 12 August 2024

Digging into the Soil – shedding light on unknown players in methane production

Wetlands are known to produce and contribute a substantial amount of methane that is released into the atmosphere. Most of that methane gets produced from microbes in rich, and sometimes smelly, soil lacking oxygen. Researchers from Brett Baker’s laboratory at the...

Wednesday, 03 February 2016

New Phyla of Microbes Identified

Kiley Seitz is a PhD graduate student with Dr. Brett Baker at The University of Texas Marine Science Institute. Her microbiology research is breaking new ground in how scientist’s think about microbes and how they are cycled throughout the ecosystems.Newly identified...

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Scavengers of the deep sea

New study reveals that microbes that live in the deep sea are true scavengers. A paper released today in Nature Communications explains how microbiologist and oceanographers used genetics to figure out what dominant ocean microorganisms are eating. The scientists from the...

Monday, 24 August 2015

Microbes watch out, there’s a new doctor in town

Dr. Brett Baker is the newest addition to the faculty at The University of Texas Marine Science Institute. Marine microbes include a very broad spectrum of microscopic organisms (microalgae, bacteria, archaea, protozoa, fungi and viruses). They are ubiquitous, inhabiting every niche...