I follow Jesus Christ. I love the Nature and treasure all lives nurtured by it. I study microorganisms in extreme ecosystems because they are fascinating.
Joined September 2017
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Maggie Lau retweeted
21 Nov 2025
New #mLife review discussed electroautotrophy—how microbes fix CO₂ using electrons from rocks or electrodes—and its implications for life in extreme & extraterrestrial environments.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
1 Nov 2025
If you’re curious about what I’ve been working on over the last few months, and what we’re building at various universities in the Chugoku-Shikoku region of Japan, tune on 12/5/25 @ 4PM JST, where I’ll introduce the @HIRAKUGlobal program, and explain how you can get involved!
31 Oct 2025
Plus Alpha Series Vol.39
[December 5th 16:00-17:00 JST]
We welcome Professor Tony Z. Jia, HIRAKU-Global Program Manager, to introduce HIRAKU-Global, as well as its researcher development strategy and initiatives promoting "internationality"
Register here👇
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19 Oct 2025
Our new review and perspective article: Current understanding of electroautotrophy and its relevance in astrobiology-related research doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.70032
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Maggie Lau retweeted
6 Jul 2024
The first isolate of Asgard archaea, MK-D1, now has an official name: Promethearchaeum syntrophicum.
The new archaeal kingdom, Promethearchaeati, is also approved!
Huge thanks to @masarunobu and JCM members (@skato_jcm) for their incredible efforts.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
17 Jun 2024
Our lab is so nice in many ways! Check out the opportunity below!
17 Jun 2024
The Global Microbial Ecology group at Carnegie Science (i.e. Zakem group) is hiring a postdoc! Location: Pasadena, CA (Caltech campus). Spread the word!
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Maggie Lau retweeted
26 Jul 2023
Ok, this is getting more real, so: if you are/know a bioinformatician interested in metagenomics, phage:host interaction, and/or tool development, and maybe tempted by a postdoc with us starting ~ Fall 2023, please DM or email ! Note: work related to human microbiome (for once) !
15 Jul 2023
We are looking for postdoc researchers to study diverse aspects of phage-host interactions. If you are interested in any of these 👇🏼studies, please send me a dm or email me.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
13 Jul 2023
A battle between a pathogen and host as the cover story of new #mLife issue: #Salmonella employs a T3SS effector to attack host cells, but the hosts defend utilizing a ubiquitin E3 ligase that degrades the virulence effector. @WileyEcolEvol @wileymicrobio doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.12063
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Maggie Lau retweeted
19 May 2023
New #mLife article: a perspective article that summarizes the expanding archaeal diversity and introduces the influence of Asgard lineages on understanding the Tree of Life and eukaryogenesis.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
24 May 2023
#mLife article: A tribute to Carl Woese who pioneered the use of genetic markers to study evolution. His proposals of 3 domains of life, and rooting between Bac, and Arch & Euk are still being discussed even to this date. @wileymicrobio @wileyinresearch
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Carl Woese: Still ahead of our time
Click on the article title to read more.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
4 Feb 2023
New #mLife article: An efficient genome editing tool and a reporter gene system are developed for Thermus thermophilus HB27, making this thermophilc strain an attractive chasis for bioindustry and synthetic biology.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
20 Jan 2023
Issues 1-4 (2022) are available online. Thanks to all the authors, reviewers and editors.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
31 Jan 2023
New #mLife article: Methanosarcina acetivorans catalyzes direct metal-to-microbe electron transfer to support methane production via multiheme, outer-surface c-type cytochrome MmcA.
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14 Aug 2022
A potential crossover : methane oxidation X iodate reduction
13 Aug 2022
New #mLife article: Genome of a novel anaerobic methanotroph, Candidatus Methylomirabilis iodofontis, assembled from cavern biofilm metagenomes, suggests its capacity for methane oxidation, oxygenic denitrification and iodate reduction.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
8 Jul 2022
Updated and expanded!
Download our curated list of 375 postdoctoral fellowships: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding…
The database lists the dollar amount, eligibility criteria (such as citizenship), deadline, and description for each fellowship.
Good luck.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
4 Jul 2022
New #mLife article: Antibiotic chloramphenicol that inhibits bacterial growth is found to kill Bacillus subtilis mutants unable to produce signaling nucleotide (p)ppGpp.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
4 Jul 2022
New #mLife article: During degradation of organic compounds, the structure of the microbial communities engaged in Metabolic Division of Labor (MDOL) is shaped and can be predicted by substrate concentration and toxicity.
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Maggie Lau retweeted
21 Jun 2022
New #mLife article: A novel synthetic pathway by bioengineering for production from fatty acids of β-alanine, an important TCA cycle-derived product, reaching a maximum yield of 1.24 g (86% of the theortecial yield).
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Maggie Lau retweeted
20 Jun 2022
That was a long journey. With many colleagues @JessErnakovich @RobynBarbato @schaedelc @StaceyJDoherty @thermokarst @MCLeewis @rmackelprang @soilbiogeochem @cloud_zero and all non-twitter Susi, Christian, Tatiana, Viginia, Tulis, Meggie, Rebecca, Jiri onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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