ISME Conversations

November 2022

Interview with Raquel Peixoto, ISME Vice President and Associate Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

April 2022

Interview with Phil Hugenholtz, ISME Vice President and Professor at The University of Queensland, Australia

Summer 2021

Interview with Lutgarde Raskin, University of Michigan, United States

23 June 2021

Interview with Fengping Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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For further reading:

Fengping Wang, Huaiyang Zhou, Jun Meng, et al. GeoChip-based analysis of metabolic diversity of microbial communities at the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal vent.
PNAS | volume 106 | no. 12 | pages 4840–4845 (2009). Published: 24 March 2009. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0810418106
Jun Meng, Fengping Wang, Feng Wang, et al. An uncultivated crenarchaeota contains functional bacteriochlorophyll a synthase.
The ISME Journal | volume 3 | pages 106–116 (2009)
Jun Meng, Jun Xu, Dan Qin, et al. Genetic and functional properties of uncultivated MCG archaea assessed by metagenome and gene expression analyses.
The ISME Journal | volume 8 | pages 650 - 659 (2014)

10 May 2021

Interview with Olubukola Babalola, Research Director, North-West University, South Africa

16 March 2021

Interview with Nicole Dubilier, ISME President and Director of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

For further reading:

Petersen, J., Zielinski, F., Pape, T. et al. Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses.
Nature 476, 176–180 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10325
Dubilier, N., Mülders, C., Ferdelman, T. et al. Endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm.
Nature 411, 298–302 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35077067

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