Cara Magnabosco
Professor für Geobiologie
ETHZ Department of Earth Sciences
NO E5; Sonneggstrasse 58092 Zürich, Switzerland+41 44 632 36 71cmagnabosco [at] ethz [dot] ch
Announcements
Spring 2021: I'm excited to announce that I'll be teaching a new course, Machine Learning for Geobiology, at ETH this spring!
December 2020: Had a lot of fun learning more about the Bedretto Lab and sharing our latest results on the "Biogeochemical survey of BULGG waters".
November 2020: Greatly enjoyed (virtually) visiting the ETH Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health and speaking about "How gut commensals can teach us about the emergence of microbial lineages".
November 2020: Greatly enjoyed my (virtual) visit to the Universität Bern Erdwissenschaftliches Kolloquium!
November 6, 2020: Greatly enjoyed my first Swiss Geoscience Meeting and speaking about how "Microbial Genomes Encode the History of a Changing Planet" in the plenary session!
October 29, 2020: It was my great pleasure to give my inaugural lecture at ETH today!
Research Interests
My research focuses on developing computational methods to better understand microbial systems. I am especially interested in microbial evolution throughout Earth’s history and their interactions in the modern world.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
A genomic catalogue of Earth’s Microbiomes.
Nayfach S. et al. (incl. Magnabosco as member of IMG/M Data Consortium). Nature Biotechnology. (2020)
Distinct Polysaccharide Utilization Profiles of Human Intestinal Prevotella copri Isolates.
H. Fehlner-Peach, C. Magnabosco, V. Raghavan, J.U. Scher, A. Tett, L.M. Cox, C. Gottsegen, A. Watters, J.D. Wiltshire-Gordon, N. Segata, R. Bonneau, and D. R. Littman. Cell Host & Microbe. (2019)
The Prevotella copri complex comprises four distinct clades underrepresented in Westernized populations.
A. Tett, K.D. Huang, F. Asnicar, H. Fehlner-Peach, E. Pasolli, N. Karcher, F. Armanini, P. Manghi, K. Bonham, M. Zolfo, F. De Filippis, C. Magnabosco, R. Bonneau, J. Lusingu, J. Amuasi, K. Reinhard, T. Rattei, F. Boulund, L. Engstrand, A. Zink, M. Carmen Collado, D.R. Littman, D. Eibach, D. Ercolini, O. Rota-Stabelli, C. Huttenhower, F. Maixner, and N. Segata. Cell Host & Microbe (2019)
An expanded ribosomal phylogeny of Cyanobacteria supports a deep placement of plastids.
K.R. Moore, C. Magnabosco, L. Momper, D.A. Gold, T. Bosak, and G.P. Fournier. Frontiers in Microbiology. (2019)
New ecosystems in the deep subsurface follow the flow of water driven by geological activity.
G. Borgonie, C. Magnabosco, A. García-Moyano, B. Linage-Alvarez, A.O. Ojo, L.B. Freese, C. Van Jaarsveld, C. Van Rooyen, O. Kuloyo, E.D. Cason, J. Vermeulen, C. Pienaar, E. Van Heerden, B. Sherwood Lollar, T. C. Onstott, and S.O.C. Mundle. Scientific Reports. (2019)
The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface.
C. Magnabosco, L.-H. Lin, H. Dong, M. Bomberg, W. Ghiorse, H. Stan-Lotter, K. Pedersen, T.L. Kieft, E. van Heerden, and T.C. Onstott. Nature Geoscience. (2018)
A.H. Heard, O. Warr, G. Borgonie, B. Linage, O. Kuloyo, J.W. Fellowes, C. Magnabosco, M.C.Y. Lau, M. Erasmus, E.D. Cason, E. van Heerden, T.L. Kieft, J. Mabry, T.C. Onstott, B. Sherwood Lollar, and C.J. Ballentine. Chemical Geology. (2018)
C. Magnabosco, P.H.A. Timmers, M.C.Y. Lau, G. Borgonie, B. Linage-Alvarez, O. Kuloyo, R. Alleva, T.L. Kieft, G.F. Slater, E. van Heerden, B. Sherwood Lollar, T.C. Onstott. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. (2018)
Dating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories.
C. Magnabosco, K.R. Moore, J.M. Wolfe, G.P. Fournier. Geobiology. (2018)
The relative abundances of resolved 12CH2D2 and 13CH3D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gases.
E.D. Young, I.E. Kohl, B. Sherwood Lollar, G. Etiope, D. Rumble III, S. Li, M.A. Haghnegahdar, E.A. Schauble, K.A. McCain, D.I. Foustoukos, C. Sutclife, O. Warr, C.J. Ballentine, T.C. Onstott, H. Hosgormez, A. Neubeck, J.M. Marques, I. Pérez-Rodríguez, A.R. Rowe, D.E. LaRowe, C. Magnabosco, L.Y. Yeung, J.L. Ash, L.T. Bryndzia. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta. (2017)
M.C.Y. Lau, T.L. Kieft, O. Kuloyo, B. Linage-Alvarez, E. van Heerden, M.R. Lindsay, C. Magnabosco, W. Wang, J.B. Wiggins, L. Guo, D.H. Perlman, S. Kyin, H.H. Shwe, R.L. Harris, Y. Oh, M.J. Yi, R. Purtschert, G.F. Slater, S. Ono, S. Wei, L. Li, B. Sherwood Lollar, T.C. Onstott. PNAS. (2016)
A metagenomic window into carbon metabolism at 3 km depth in Precambrian continental crust.
C. Magnabosco, K. Ryan, M.C.Y. Lau, O. Kuloyo, B. Sherwood Lollar, T.L. Kieft, E. van Heerden, T.C. Onstott. ISMEJ. (2016)
Variations in microbial carbon sources and cycling in the deep continental subsurface.
D.N. Simkus, G.F. Slater, B. Sherwood Lollar, K. Wilkie, T.L. Kieft, C. Magnabosco, M.C.Y. Lau, M.J. Pullin, S.B. Hendrickson, K.E. Wommack, E.G.Sakowski, E. van Heerden, O. Kuloyo, B. Linage, G. Borgonie, T.C. Onstott. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. (2015)
C. Magnabosco, A. Braathen, K. Ogata. Norwegian Journal of Geology 94 (2014): 189-200.
C. Magnabosco, M. Tekere, M.C.Y. Lau, B. Linage, O. Kuloyo, M. Erasmus, E. Cason, E. van Heerden, G. Borgonie, T.L. Kieft, J. Olivier, T.C. Onstott. Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology 5 (2014): 679.
M.C.Y. Lau, C. Cameron, C. Magnabosco, C.T. Brown, F. Schilkey, S. Grim, S. Hendrickson, M. Pullin, B. Sherwood Lollar, E. van Heerden, T.L. Kieft, and T.C. Onstott. Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology 5 (2014): 531.
Does aspartic acid racemization constrain the depth limit of the subsurface biosphere?
T.C. Onstott, C. Magnabosco, A.D. Aubrey, A.S. Burton, J.P. Dworkin, J.E. Elsila, S. Grunsfeld, B.H. Cao, J.E. Hein, D.P. Glavin, T.L. Kieft, B.J. Silver, T.J. Phelps, E. van Heerden, D.J. Opperman, and J.L. Bada. Geobiology 12.1 (2014): 1-19.
V.J. Bertics, J.A. Sohm, C. Magnabosco, and W. Ziebis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78.11 (2012): 3864-3872.
Theses
From Genes to Metagenomes: Exploring life underground.
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Princeton University, 2016
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University of Southern California, 2011
Book Chapters, etc.
Biogeography, Ecology, and Evolution of Deep Life.
C. Magnabosco, J.F. Biddle, C.S. Cockell, S.P. Jungbluth, K.I. Twing. In B. Orcutt, I. Daniel, & R. Dasgupta (Eds.) Deep Carbon: Past to Present. Cambridge University Press (2019): 524-555