Heidi S. Aronson

TL;DR: The current state of knowledge for the biospace in which life operates on Earth is reviewed and discussed in a planetary context, highlighting knowledge gaps and areas of opportunity.

TL;DR: The development of the first custom database of MALDI-TOF MS profiles of bacterial isolates obtained from spacecraft and associated cleanroom environments is reported, which resolved strain-level variations, identified potential novel species and distinguished between members of taxonomic groups, which is not possible using conventional 16S rRNA sequencing.

TL;DR: This study characterized the gut microbiome of R. osteovora, compared to the surrounding environment, as well as to other deep-sea snails with more typical diets, suggesting a long-term association.

TL;DR: This first glimpse into the metabolic capabilities of these cosmopolitan bacteria suggests that they are involved in key geochemical processes, including sulfur, nitrogen, and carbon cycling, and that they have been adapted to survival in the dark, often anoxic, subsurface biosphere.

TL;DR: This research presents a novel probabilistic procedure that allows for direct measurement of the response of the immune system to earthquake-triggered landsliding.