Refereed Journals and Reviews * Undergraduate, graduate or postdoctoral advisees 1. 2019 Siwen Wei, Long Li, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Boswell Wing, Thi H. Bui, Shuhei Ono, Maggie C. Y. Lau, Tullis C. Onstott, Thomas L. Kieft, Esta van Heerden, and Errol Cason, Multiple sulfur and oxygen isotopic constraints on the origin of dissolved sulfate supporting the terrestrial subsurface biosphere in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in review. 2. 2019 Harris, R.*, Maggie C. Y. Lau*, Esta van Heerden, Errol Cason, Jan-G Vermeulen, Anjali Taneja, Thomas L. Kieft, Christina DeCoste, Gary Laevsky, and Tullis C. Onstott, Labeling of prokaryotic mRNA in live cells using fluorescent in situ hybridization of transcript-annealing molecular beacons (FISH- TAMB). Environmental Microbiology, post-review revision. 3. 2019 Eric D. Becraft, Maggie C.Y. Lau, Oliver K.I. Bezuidt, Julia M. Brown, Jessica M. Labonté, Kotryna Kauneckaite-Griguole, Ruta Salkauskaite, Gediminas Alzbutas, Joshua D. Sackett, Brittany R. Kruger, Vitaly Kadnikov, Esta van Heerden, Duane Moser, Nikolai Ravin, Tullis Onstott, and Ramunas Stepanauskas, Stalled evolution of a deep subsurface microbial lineage. Science Advances, in review. 4. 2019 Jacob P. Beam, Eric D. Becraft, Julia M. Brown, Frederik Schulz, Jessica K. Jarett, Oliver Bezuidt, Nicole J. Poulton, Kayla Clark, Peter F. Dunfield, Nikolai V. Ravin\, John R. Spear, Brian P. Hedlund, Konstantinos A. Kormas, Stefan M. Sievert, Mostafa S. Elshahed, Hazel A. Barton, Matthew B. Stott, Jonathan A. Eisen, Duane P. Moser, Tullis C. Onstott, Tanja Woyke, and Ramunas Stepanauskas, Patescibacteria and DPANN may precede the evolution of respiration. Nature Microbiology, in review. 5. 2019 Youmi Oh, Qianlai Zhuang, Licheng Liu, Lisa R. Welp, Maggie C.Y. Lau*, Tullis C. Onstott, David Medvigy, Lori Bruhwiler, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Gustaf Hugelius, Ludovica D’Imperio, and Bo Elberling, Reduced net methane emissions due to microbial methane oxidation in a warmer Arctic. Nature Climate Change – Letter, in review. 6. 2019 Renxing Liang*, Maggie C.Y. Lau*, Evan T. Saitta, Zachary K. Garvin*, Tullis C. Onstott, Genome- centric resolution of novel microbial lineages in an excavated Centrosaurus dinosaur fossil bone from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Microbiome, in review. 7. 2019 Calvin Rusley*, Tullis C. Onstott, Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Alice Layton, Archana Chauhan, Susan M. Pfiffner, Lyle G. Whyte and Maggie C.Y. Lau*, Metagenome-Assembled Genome of USCa AHI, a Potential High-Affinity Methanotroph from Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8: e01178-19. 8. 2019 Evan T. Saitta, Renxing Liang*, M.C.Y. Lau*, C.M. Brown, N.R. Longrich, T.G. Kaye, B.J. Novak, S.L. Salzberg, M.A. Norell, G.D. Abbott, M.R. Dickinson, J. Vinther, I.D. Bull, R.A. Brooker, P. Martin, P. Donohoe, T.D.J. Knowles, K.E.H. Penkman, and Tullis C. Onstott, Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities. eLife, 8:e46205. 9. 2019 Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm, Laura E. Stewart, Mavrik Zavarin, Matt Caldwell, Paul Lawson, Tullis C. Onstott, Joseph Grzymski, Iva Neveux, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Charles E. Russell, Duane P. Moser, Thermoanaerosceptrum fracticalcis gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel fumarate-fermenting microorganism from a deep fractured carbonate aquifer of the US Great Basin. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10:2224. 10. 2019 Renxing Liang, Maggie Lau, Oliver Baars, Frank T. Robb and Tullis C. Onstott, Aspartic acid racemization constrains long-term viability and longevity of endospores. FEMS Microbial Ecology, 95: 10.1093/femsec/fiz132. 11. 2019 Renxing Liang, Maggie Lau, Tatiana Vishnivetskaya, Karen G. Lloyd, Susan Pfiffner, Elizaveta M. Rivkina, Tullis Onstott, Predominance of anaerobic, spore-forming bacteria in metabolically active microbial communities from ancient Siberian permafrost. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85: e00560-19. 12. 2019 G. Borgonie, C. Magnabosco*, A. Garcia-Moyano, B. Linage-Alvarez, A.O. Ojo, L.B. Freese, C. Van Jaarsveld, C. Van Rooyen, O. Kuloyo, E.D. Cason, J. Vermeulen, C. Pienaar, E. van Heerden, B. Sherwood Lollar, T.C. Onstott and S.O.C. Mundle, Seismic Activity is the Driving Force for the Development of New Ecosystems in the Deep Subsurface. Scientific Reports 9:3310 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39699- w. 1 13. 2019 Onstott, T.C., B.L. Ehlmann, H. Sapers, M. Coleman, M. Ivarsson, J.J. Marlow, A. Neubeck, and P. Niles, Paleo-Rock-Hosted Life on Earth and the Search on Mars: a Review and Strategy for Exploration, Astrobiology, doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.1960. 14. 2019 Ianina Altshuler, Jennifer Ronholm, Alice Layton, Tullis C Onstott, Charles Greer, Lyle G. Whyte, Denitrifiers, Nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and N2O soil gas flux in high Arctic ice-wedge polygon cryosols. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95: doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz049. 15. 2019 Deborah J. Weinstein, Sarah E. Allen, Maggie Lau, Mariana Erasmus, Kathryn Walters-Conte, Robert Sebra, Gaetan Borgonie, Esta Van Heerden, Tullis C. Onstott, and John R. Bracht, The genome of a highly diverged subterrestrial nematode reveals an evolutionary strategy for adaptation to heat. Nature Communications, 10:5268. 16. 2019 V. Stamenković, L. W. Beegle, K. Zacny, D. D. Arumugam, P. Baglioni, N. Barba, J. Baross, M.-S. Bell, R. Bhartia, J. G. Blank, P. J. Boston, D. Breuer, W. Brinckerhoff, M. Burgin, I. Cooper, V. Cormarkovic, A. Davila, C. Edwards, W. W. Fischer, D. P. Glavin, B. Grimm, F. Inagaki, T. Komarek, M. Malaska, B. MeÅLnez, J. Michalski, M. Mischna, D. Moser, J. Mustard, T. C. Onstott, V. J. Orphan, M. R. Osburn, J. Plaut, A.-C. Plesa, N. Putzig, K. L. Rogers, L. Rothschild, M. Russell, H. Sapers, B. Sherwood Lollar, T. Spohn, J. D. Tarnas, M. Tuite, D. Viola, L. M. Ward, B. Wilcox and R. Woolley, The next frontier for planetary and human exploration. Nature Astronomy 3:116–120. 17. 2019 Evan T. Saitta, Renxing Liang, M.C.Y. Lau, C.M. Brown, N.R. Longrich, T.G. Kaye, Ben J. Novak, Steven Salzberg, Paul Donohoe, Marc R. Dickinson, Jakob Vinther, Ian D. Bull, Richard A. Brooker, Peter Martin, Geoffrey D. Abbott, Timothy D. J. Knowles, Kirsty E. H. Penkman, and Tullis C. Onstott, Life Inside a Dinosaur Bone: A Thriving Microbiome. biorxiv. 18. 2018 Rachel L. Harris*, Maggie. C. Y. Lau*, Andreia Cadar, Douglas Bartlett, Errol Cason, Esta van Heerden, and Tullis C. Onstott, Draft Genome Sequence of Candidatus Bathyarchaeota Archaeon BE326- BA-RLH, an Uncultured Denitrifier and Putative Anaerobic Methanotroph from South Africa’s Deep Continental Biosphere. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 7:e01295-18. 19. 2018 Onstott, T.C., B.L. Ehlmann, H. Sapers, M. Coleman, M. Ivarsson, J.J. Marlow, A. Neubeck, and P. Niles, Paleo-Rock-Hosted Life on Earth and the Search on Mars: a Review and Strategy for Exploration, arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08266. 20. 2018 Magnabosco, C.*, L-H Lin*, H. Dong*, M. Bomberg, W. Ghiorse, H. Stan-Lotter, K. Pedersen, T.L. Kieft, E. vanHeerden, and T.C. Onstott. The Biomass and Biodiversity of the Continental Subsurface. Nature Geoscience, 11:707–717, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0221-6. 21. 2018 Andrew W. Heard, Oliver Warr, Gaetan Borgonie, Borja Linage, Olukayode Kuloyo, Cara Magnabosco*, Maggie C.Y. Lau*, Mariana Erasmus, Errol D. Cason, Esta van Heerden, Thomas L.Kieft, Jennifer Mabry, Tullis C. Onstott, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, and Chris J. Ballentine, Origins and ages of fracture fluids in the South African Crust, Chemical Geology, 493, 379-395. 22. 2018 Edwin S. Kite, Eric Gaidos, and Tullis C. Onstott, Valuing Life-Detection Missions. Astrobiology 18:834-840. 23. 2018 Maggie C.Y. Lau*, Rachel L. Harris*, Youmi Oh*, Min Joo Yi*, Aida Behmard* and T.C. Onstott, Taxonomic and functional compositions impacted by the quality of metatranscriptomic assemblies. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9:1235, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01235. 24. 2018 A. V. Shatilovich, A. V. Tchesunov, T. V. Neretina, I. P. Grabarnik, S. V. Gubin, T. A. Vishnivetskaya, T. C. Onstott, and E. M. Rivkina, Viable Nematodes from Late Pleistocene Permafrost of the Kolyma River Lowland. Doklady Biological Sciences 480:100–102. 25. 2018 Kieft, T.L., Clifford C. Walters, Meytal B. Higgins, Anthony S. Mennito, Catherine F. M. Clewett, Verena Heuer, Michael J. Pullin, Sarah Hendrickson, Esta van Heerden, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Maggie C.Y. Lau*, T.C. Onstott, Dissolved Organic Matter Compositions in 0.6–3.4 km Deep Fracture Waters, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. Organic Geochemistry 118:116–131, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.02.003. 26. 2018 Magnabosco, C.*, Timmers, P.H.A., Lau, M.C.Y.*, Borgonie, G., Linage-Alvarez, B., Kuloyo, O., Alleva, R.*, Kieft, T. L., Slater, G. S., van Heerden, E., Sherwood Lollar, B. and Onstott, T. C. Fluctuations in populations of subsurface methane oxidizers in coordination with changes in electron acceptor availability. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94:fiy089, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy089. 27. 2017 Harris, R.*, Maggie C. Y. Lau*, Esta van Heerden, Errol Cason, Jan-G Vermeulen, Anjali Taneja, Thomas L. Kieft, Christina DeCoste, Gary Laevsky, and Tullis C. Onstott.. Labeling of prokaryotic mRNA 2 in live cells using fluorescent in situ hybridization of transcript-annealing molecular beacons (FISH- TAMB). bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/178368. 28. 2017 Eric Daniel Becraft, Tanja Woyke, Jessica Jarett, Natalia Ivanova, Filipa GodoyVitorino, Nicole Poulton, Julia M. Brown, Joe Brown, Maggie Lau*, Tullis Onstott, Jonathan Eisen, Duane Moser, Ramunas Stepanauskas. Rokubacteria: genomic giants among the uncultured bacterial phyla. Frontiers in Microbiology 8:2264, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02264. 29. 2017 Michalski, J.R., Onstott, T.C., Mojzsis, S.J., Mustard, J., Chan, Q., Niles, P.B., Johnson, S.S. Seeking Signs of Chemosynthetic Life in Ancient Subsurface and Hydrothermal Settings on Mars. Nature Geoscience 11:21–26, doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0015-2.