With their diverse geochemistry, hot spring environments are wonderful places to explore how microbes and chemistry are co-structured.

We study lithotrophic microbes at ferrous iron carbonate hot springs, using molecular techniques like metagenomics, and also activity assays with stable isotope probing

Techniques used:

metagenomic sequencing and assembling technology ・stable isotope probing ・secondary ion mass spectrometry ・ epifluorescence light microscopy ・electron microscopy ・gas and water chemistry analysis

some previous works in this area:

Evolution of phototrophy in the Chloroflexi phylum driven by horizontal gene transfer

LM Ward, J Hemp, PM Shih, SE McGlynn, WW Fischer

Frontiers in microbiology 9, 260

Nitrogen Fixation in Thermophilic Chemosynthetic Microbial Communities Depending on Hydrogen, Sulfate, and Carbon Dioxide

A Nishihara, S Haruta, SE McGlynn, V Thiel, K Matsuura

Microbes and environments 33 (1), 10-18

Microbial diversity and iron oxidation at Okuoku‐hachikurou Onsen, a Japanese hot spring analog of Precambrian iron formations

LM Ward, A Idei, S Terajima, T Kakegawa, WW Fischer, SE McGlynn

Geobiology 15 (6), 817-835