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Energy from air? No problem! In our new preprint, we reconstitute the machinery that allows microbes to endure starvation. By using the trace amounts of hydrogen in air alone, they produce plenty of chemical energy (2 ATP) to get by. The only byproduct? Water. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hydrogenase-driven ATP synthesis from air www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... New work from us where we put the Huc hydrogenase to work to see if it can generate a proton motive force. It can! cc: @ashleighkropp.bsky.social @rhyswg.bsky.social @greening.bsky.social

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Wonderful opportunity. So excited for where Sophie and our team have taken the Antarctic program.

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Our latest preprint reveals how new ecosystems form. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Combining ecological, genomic, and activity based approaches, we reveal the first colonisers are highly flexible microbes that use rock-derived and atmospheric energy sources. Photosynthesis isn't so important. 1/2

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#LorneProteins2025 Chris Greening - enzymatically driven ATP and electricity generation from air. Organisms that can live on air. Passive diffusion. Trace gas oxidation widespread strategy. Soil bacteria - Important for atmosphere, biodiversity and ecosystems! Amazing work supported by a great team

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Our lab has come back refreshed from our annual retreat. Blending personal/scientific talks with group discussions and team activities. I come away amazed by our team -- not just for our science, but for how mature, caring, and forward-thinking everyone is. So proud! P.S. Can you guess the microbe?

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Methanol transfer supports metabolic syntrophy between bacteria and archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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In Nature Chemical Biology today, we reveal how microbes clean our atmospheres by consuming carbon monoxide (CO) gas. A methodological tour de force from Ashleigh Kropp, Rhys Grinter, and David Gillett with broad implications for the atmosphere and bioenergetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Extensive new preprint with Ying Teng's lab on how carbon monoxide affects soil communities and activities. Contrary to popular belief, CO at biologically relevant concentrations mainly stimulates rather than inhibits growth. Diverse bacteria grow and fix CO2 with it. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Completely agree. The field also critically needs biochemists, biogeochemists, and true ecologists too. To become more mechanistic rather than observational, and bounded in biogeochemical principles and ecological frameworks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Melbourne Pride (Midsumma) started yesterday. Very thankful to live in such a cosmopolitan and progressive city.

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I apologise for HydDB being down. Aarhus University decided to stop hosting it at quite short notice. However, we plan to relaunch first thing next year and are in the midst of creating a much-needed HydDB 2.0. HydDB 1.0 is good for hydrogenase information, but our HMMs best for classification. 1/2

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New life goal unlocked! Getting to work on marsupials, including kangaroos, koalas, and my all time faves, wombats. Privileged to help on this great UQ-led study showing differences in hydrogen cycling and electron flow explain low methane emissions in marsupials. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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GRWM to fly to #Antarctica tomorrow! Our flight from Cape Town aims to land in the coldest part of the "night", for the best runway conditions, so this is everything I'll be wearing when I step off the plane and onto the ice ❄️ #SAEFgoesSouth

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Huge congrats to Cait Welsh for submitting her PhD thesis today. As reflected in the preprint below, Cait has bridged methods to understand gas cycling in the human gut in health and disease. Also a huge source of enthusiasm, innovation and support over the years. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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One of the joys of my HoD role is to see the excellence of our PhD students being recognised. Very proud of Dr Bob Leung, recipient of the Mollie Holman award for excellence in graduate research, @monashuniversity.bsky.social supervised by @greening.bsky.social, Congrats to all the award recipients

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Enormous congratulations to Bob (Pok Man) Leung for receiving the Mollie Holman Award for Thesis Excellence. Bob was an exceptionally visionary, collaborative, and productive PhD student valued by all. He received an ARC DECRA Fellowship earlier this year to develop an independent program.

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

Nature Communications are constantly threatening me with a $9000+ invoice for a journal article that didn't even involve me. Told their editorial and debt team multiple times, but it continues and have been referred to debt collection agency. I'm not involved in any way. 😲

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You hear about our successes a lot on here, but I don't talk enough about the rejections. As of today, 10 out of the 12 grants members of our lab put in this year didn't get up. Most grants were led by early-career researchers in/with our team as a way for them to lead independent programs. 1/3

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Great to see our work on the #cryoem structure of the human TSC:WIPI3 lysosomal recruitment complex! Awesome effort from co-authors @charlesbj.bsky.social and Laura D'Andrea with @drellisdon.bsky.social doing the heavy lifting leading the project. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Honoured to receive Monash University's inaugural Researcher of the Year award last night. Since starting my group eight years ago, the university has enabled us to do creative, impactful, often programmatic research. This award recognises a huge collective effort from our team and collaborators.

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Methanogenesis outside the Euryarchaeota experimentally demonstrated by three cultivation-driven studies (two from my lab)! A long🧵.🐻with me tinyurl.com/4v4fkda6 tinyurl.com/yr4p7js6 tinyurl.com/mtsrj6b9

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The atmosphere: a transport medium or an active microbial ecosystem? From @greening.bsky.social et al. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

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In our new paper at Cell (@CellCellPress), we reveal secrets of how the third form of life, archaea, make energy. We uncover new lineages of hydrogen-using enzymes, both minimal and complex. These help archaea thrive in deep dark anoxic environments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Introducing aerotrophy! In this new preprint, we show that aerated caves are continually energised by atmospheric trace gases. The most abundant and active microbes fix carbon using hydrogen and methane gas. Huge collective effort led with Sean Bay and Steven Chown. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Elated to receive the Prime Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year yesterday. Reflects a massive team effort from our wonderful team past and present. Also so thankful to my collaborators, mentors, teachers, supporters, and funders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Dv...

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congratulations, chris 👏 www.monash.edu/discovery-in... #MikroSky 🦠🧫

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Really nice paper about photosynthesis in Myxococcota - the 9th bacterial phylum with photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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An often neglected enzyme forming N2O might play a bigger role than previously thought. Very interesting preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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We have two Prof-level posts open at IMI Birmingham: Microbial Genomics www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBJ457/c... Respiratory Infection Biology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBJ427/c... Deadline is 30 Sept! Email @alanmcn1.bsky.social or me with questions

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Very late to the party, but great to see there seems to be a solid Twitter alternative. So many fantastic people on here.

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