Aug 7, graduate student Mackenzie Lynes joins the lab
Jul 20, JGI-EMSL FICUS (Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science) proposal is accepted
From phenotype to genotype and back again: large scale functional characterization of microbial
dark matter by combining activity-based cell sorting, isotope labeling, and genomic sequencing
Jul 17, graduate student April Oliver joins the lab
Jun 27, NSF MRI proposal for a Confocal Raman microscope with cell sorting capability funded!
We will use this instrument to study the in situ activity and growth substrates of uncultured cells
Jun 27, New paper accepted in Nat Sci Rep. Congrats first author Luke McKay! PDF
Occurrence and expression of novel methyl-coenzyme M reductase gene (mcrA) variants in hot spring sediments
May 10, Roland is named a NASA Early Career Fellow
May 10, Our project on the biology of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria is funded
by the NASA Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology program
Apr 21, Postdoc Viola Krukenberg (PhD 2015, Max Planck Inst. for Marine Microbiology, Bremen) joins the lab
Apr 1, Hatzenpichler lab discovers the 4th domain of life, decides to not publish their results
Jan 2, Nick Reichart joins the lab as first graduate student
Jan 1, the Hatzenpichler lab opens in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Bldg of MSU
Nov 17, Small-Scale Community Science Program project "Cosmopolitan sediment-dwelling archaea
hypothesized to be involved in anaerobic carbon cycling" is selected for funding by the JGI
Nov 7, Sampling trip to Yellowstone National Park
Nov 1, Roland starts as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry @ MSU, Bozeman
If you are a highly motivated prospective grad student or postdoc candidate, please contact Roland.
Starting September 1st 2017, a postdoc position is available in our lab! Check 'Open jobs' for details
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Roland Hatzenpichler, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Montana State University, Bozeman
contact: roland.hatzenpichler (at) montana.edu
Hatzenpichler Environmental Microbiology Lab
99% of microorganisms cannot be grown in the lab. We seek to understand what this "uncultured majority" is doing and how their activity shapes Earth's biogeochemical cycles.
Aug 27 - Sep 1, Juliana Beauchene travels to South Africa to present her work at the Thermophiles conference: Discovering the metabolic adaptations of alkaliphilic hyperthermophilic archaea to their extreme environment In Yellowstone National Park
Jul 9 - Aug 23, postdoc Viola Krukenberg as teaching assistant at Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
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