Paper out!

Today, Cassie’s and my article on metagenome-assembled genomes in two hot springs of Kamchatka, Russia was published in Scientific Reports. Cassie and I only analyzed the data. The whole story is much older and involves many more people, including Elizabeth Burgess who originally collected the samples as a graduate student in Jürgen Wiegel’s lab. Or Russell Neches, who went to Kamchatka himself and had played with this dataset before us. And Ray Keren who encouraged and distracted me with his fascination for arsenic biochemical pathways.

Laura Hug led the way in the beginning and Chris Brown provided the tools when we got stuck.

We are all working really hard and sometimes don’t even find the time to celebrate or to be proud. I had a hard time today to enjoy. Now it is sinking in slowly. I am incredibly proud of Cassie. Working on this project with Cassie cheered me up, it motivated me to do things right, and it gave me a strong feeling of peace.

We learned a lot and we tried to do it right. In every aspect. Guillaume showed us many tricks. And Jonathan believed in us.

And A. Murat Eren was very important too. A bright star on the horizon. And the Banfield lab. We got a lot of inspiration. Obscure archaea are awesome.

At some point, when we are all a bit less busy, Jonathan might write a blog post about the background and history of our article…

The article itself can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39576-6

2 thoughts on “Paper out!

  1. I am so proud of Laetitia!!! She is so modest, but she worked so hard on this and always kept me sane. I couldn’t ask for a better work wife! <3

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