Stanford University

Contact Info:

Gert van Dijken

Green Earth Sciences Building, 367 Panama Street

Stanford, CA 94305

https://geomicrobiologylabs.stanford.edu/

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_025000

Instrumentation:

Services Provided:

Relevant Publications:

1.) Chatterjee P, Shin HE, Tuncel MI, Paddy IA, Lee AK, McCausland J, Welander PV, Jacobs-Wagner C, Dassama LMK (2026 May 23). A lipid compendium of a metabolically compromised bacterium provides insights into lipid acquisition, biosynthesis, and metabolism. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, (), . . PMCID: 13228262.

2.) Lee AK, Giner JL, Welander PV (2026 Mar 2). A sterol reductase responsible for the unusual 8(14)-unsaturation in bacterial sterol production and degradation. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, (), . . PMCID: 13001347.

3.) McShea HS, Viens RA, Olagunju BO, Giner JL, Welander PV (2025 Aug 19). The Evolutionary History and Modern Diversity of Triterpenoid Cyclases Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42(9), msaf203. . PMCID: 12414744.

4.) McShea HS, Viens RA, Olagunju BO, Giner JL, Welander PV (2025 Aug 2). The evolutionary history and modern diversity of triterpenoid cyclases bioRxiv, (), 2024.10.28.620730. . PMCID: 12324236.

5.) Jaffe AL, Salcedo RS, Dekas AE (2025 Jun 16). Abundant and metabolically flexible bacterial lineages underlie a vast potential for rubisco-mediated carbon fixation in the dark ocean Genome Biology, 26(), 167. . PMCID: 12168267.

Description:

The shared Geomicrobiology analytical facilities consist of four different labs in the Green Earth Sciences Building. Main areas of study are: 1) molecular, bio(geo)chemical, and ecological aspects of the microbial cycling of nitrogen, carbon, and metals in the environment; 2) diversity, distribution, and activity of microorganisms driving greenhouse gas cycling in the ocean and beyond; 3) molecular biomarkers in modern organisms to refine our interpretations of the microbial fossil record.