Geomicrobiology and Microbial Sedimentology at MIT

New Bosak Lab Website Launched

Bosak Lab — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:48:20 +0000

Welcome to the new portal to discover news and information on the research of the MIT Bosak Lab. Please contact our web administrator for questions.

Green Lake Sampling Trip

Bosak Lab — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:54:30 +0000

This June, members of the Bosak Lab took a sampling trip to Green Lake, New York. After five hours of driving, a day probing the depths with a rowboat, a Niskin bottle, and 80 meters of rope – we returned with water samples from multiple depths of this meromictic lake, teeming with anaerobic, sulfur reducing bacteria.

[Image courtesy of Flikr user phearce; lisence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0]

Bosak wins 2012 Edgerton Award

Bosak Lab — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:04:08 +0000

Professor Tanja Bosak wins MIT’s Harold E. Edgerton Award “in recognition both for the groundbreaking work that she has accomplished and the potential she has demonstrated to continue to transform the field of geobiology”.

“In her quest to understand what life was like on Earth billions of years ago, Bosak has devised clever approaches, advancing scientists’ understanding of some fundamental biological phenomena that shaped features of early Earth”, the award selection committee reported.

Professor Bosak who received her Ph.D. in 2004 from CalTech joined the EAPS faculty in 2007 after having served as a postdoc at Harvard. Since then, she has been applying, what the committee described as “cutting edge techniques in modern microbiology, geology and geochemistry to the study of contemporary microbial communities, bringing to this subject a unique combination of scientific imagination, physical reasoning, and experimental rigor. As her students would attest, Professor Bosak is an outstanding instructor. Her group meetings are a popular forum, not just for her own group but also for a lively collection of interested students and postdoics from across EAPS and other departments. Her mentorship of Ph.D. students has proven exemplary”.

Professor Bosak has also recently been recognized by the American Geophysical Union with the prestigious Macelwane Medal, which recognizes significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding young scientist.

Alex Petroff receives award at AGU

Bosak Lab — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:51:56 +0000

Alex Petroff received 2010 Student Award and the Elizabeth Sulzman travel grant for his presentation about the growth geometry of conical stromatolites at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting. Alex graduated in May 2011, is now a proud owner of a kayak and will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute after getting lost in Alaska.

Tanja speaks at Science for the Public

Bosak Lab — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:50:31 +0000

Tanja speaks about the Evolution of Photosynthesis for Science for the Public, a grassroots organization that aims to improve public understanding of science.

http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/?page_id=944

Winter Party 2010

Bosak Lab — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:47:45 +0000

In January 2010, we said goodbye to Kate and Biqing. Good luck to them in Kenya and Taiwan!

FIeld trip Southern Urals and Moscow

Bosak Lab — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:45:52 +0000

June 2009 (funded by MIT MISTI)

Participants:
Anastasia Maheras, Alexander Petroff, Mikhail Krupenin, Min Sub Sim, Tanja Bosak

FIeld trip Yellowstone National Park

Bosak Lab — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:47:22 +0000

Yellowstone National Park 2007, 2008

Participants:
Dan Rothman, Gill Geesey, Alexander Petroff, Tanja Bosak (2007)
Alexander Petroff, Min Sub Sim, Biqing Liang, Kate Harris (2008)

(permit # YELL-2008-SCI-5758 from National Park Services)