Alexander J. Probst

The paper shows that some mitochondria-lacking planctomycetal bacteria can engulf prey, challenging mitochondria-first eukaryogenesis models.

The paper identifies and characterizes Borgs and mini-Borgs in Methanoperedens archaea, revealing their evolutionary origins and genomic relationships.

itBins refines metagenomic bins and estimates binning success using %GC content, coverage, and taxonomy, outperforming existing tools in speed and accuracy.

The paper examines microbial diversity and community shifts in an oil reservoir under production, finding that water breakthrough alters community structure through sulfate-reducing bacteria rather than injected microbes.

The paper identifies novel extended tetraether lipids in a high-CO2 geyser, suggesting their role in membrane adaptation to extreme conditions.

The paper identifies a microbial pathway where methane oxidation produces acetate, which then drives Fe(III) and As(V) reduction, leading to arsenic mobilization in groundwater.

This study shows that uranium mining alters deep groundwater microbiomes, causing genetic and functional changes through increased radiation and uranium exposure.

The paper compares microbial communities in crude oil and production water from oil fields, finding that crude oil samples better represent reservoir microbiomes than production water.

This study compares the metatranscriptomes of two Candidatus Altiarchaeum populations in different subsurface ecosystems, identifying gene expression differences related to metabolism and defense mechanisms.

This study shows river sediment microbiomes are highly sensitive to reduced flow velocity, leading to altered community compositions and stress responses that recover after two weeks.

The paper analyzes hyporheic zone microbiomes across North America to show conserved stress responses and distinct metabolic activity in sediments versus surface water.

This paper uses long-read sequencing to infer replication states of bacteria and viruses in enrichment cultures by detecting non-canonical base incorporation.

The paper investigates Gracilibacteria activity in a high-CO2 aquifer using metaproteogenomics, suggesting they may function as microbial predators.

The paper analyzes subsurface microbiomes globally, finding a marine-terrestrial phylogenetic divide and revealing that marine subsurface environments host significant microbial diversity.

The paper expands the global RNA virome by five-fold, identifying new clades of RNA bacteriophages and revealing novel virus-host interactions.

MuDoGeR simplifies genome recovery from metagenomes for non-experts, demonstrating effectiveness across various sample sizes.

The paper identifies a novel Thaumarchaeota genus in the Atacama Desert hyperarid core, revealing its role in carbon and nitrogen cycling through genomic analysis.

uBin is a manual bin refinement tool for metagenomics designed for education, improving bin quality by reducing contamination in public datasets.

The paper analyzes microbial diversity and metabolic potential in cyanotoxin-producing cyanobacterial mats across a river network using metagenomic sequencing.

The paper introduces EukRep, a method to recover eukaryotic genomes from metagenomic samples, demonstrating its utility in analyzing microbial community responses to environmental changes.