Faculty Profiles

Sobol, M. S., & Martinez-Gutierrez, C. (n.d.). Tracing ancient life through the genomic record. Journal of Applied Microbiology.

Sobol, M. S., Ané, C., McMahon, K. D., & Kaçar, B. (2026). Ecological constraints and evolutionary trade-offs shape nitrogen fixation across habitats. ISME Communications. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycag007

Jones, C. L., Camps-Castella, J., Smykala, M., Sobol, M. S., & Inomura, K. (2024). Seeing through the gray box: an integrated approach to physiological modeling of phytoplankton stoichiometry. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1505025

Sobol, M. S., Garcia, A. K., An\’e, C\’ecile, & Kacar, B. (2024). Evolutionary and ecological diversity of nitrogen fixation. In The Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2024 (209th ed., pp. 227--209). Retrieved from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024absc.conf00951S/abstract

Garcia, A. K., Sobol, M. S., & Kacar, B. (2024). The natural history of biological molybdenum usage. In The Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2024 (pp. 311--01). Retrieved from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024absc.conf99223G/abstract

El Khaled EL Faraj, Razan, Chakraborty, S., Zhou, M., Sobol, M. S., Thiele, D., Shatford-Adams, L. M., … others. (2024). Drug-Induced Differential Gene Expression Analysis on Nanoliter Droplet Microarrays: Enabling Tool for Functional Precision Oncology. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 14(1), 2401820. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202401820Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Sobol, M. S., Sturm, G., & Kaster, A.-K. (2024). Besser und günstiger: Volumenreduktion in der Einzelzellgenomik. BIOspektrum, 30(1), 33–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-024-2126-9

Hembach, N., Drechsel, V., Sobol, M. S., Kaster, A.-K., Köhler, H.-R., Triebskorn, R., & Schwartz, T. (2024). Effect of glyphosate, its metabolite AMPA, and the glyphosate formulation Roundup® on brown trout (Salmo trutta f. fario) gut microbiome diversity. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1271983

Münch, J. M., Sobol, M. S., Brors, B., & Kaster, A.-K. (2023). Single-cell transcriptomics and data analyses for prokaryotes—Past, present and future concepts. In Advances in Applied Microbiology (pp. 1–39). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aambs.2023.04.002

Sobol, M. S., & Ka\ccar, Bet\"ul. (2023). Probing modern microbial genomes for resurrecting ancient metabolisms. Retrieved from https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/20391

Sobol, M. S. (2023). Improving Single Cell ‘Omics Methods for Investigating Microbial Dark Matter. In Advances in Applied Microbiology (Vol. 123). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aambs.2023.04.002

Rivier, A. J., Myers, K. S., Garcia, A. K., Sobol, M. S., & Ka\ccar, Bet\"ul. (2023). Regulatory response to a hybrid ancestral nitrogenase in Azotobacter vinelandii. Microbiology Spectrum, 11(5), e02815--23. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02815-23

Wiegand, S., Sobol, M. S., Schnepp-Pesch, L. K., Yan, G., Iqbal, S., Vollmers, J., … Kaster, A.-K. (2023). Taxonomic Re-Classification and Expansion of the Phylum Chloroflexota Based on over 5000 Genomes and Metagenome-Assembled Genomes. Microorganisms, 11(10), 2612. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11102612

Zoheir, A. E., Sobol, M. S., Meisch, L., Ordoñez-Rueda, D., Kaster, A.-K., Niemeyer, C. M., & Rabe, K. S. (2023). A three-colour stress biosensor reveals multimodal response in single cells and spatiotemporal dynamics of biofilms. Npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-023-00424-1

Sobol, M. S., Hoshino, T., Delgado, V., Futagami, T., Kadooka, C., Inagaki, F., & Kiel Reese, B. (2023). Genome characterization of two novel deep-sea sediment fungi, Penicillium pacificagyrus sp. nov. and Penicillium pacificasedimenti sp. nov., from South Pacific Gyre subseafloor sediments, highlights survivability. BMC Genomics, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-023-09320-6

Sobol, M. S., & Kaster, A.-K. (2023). Back to Basics: A Simplified Improvement to Multiple Displacement Amplification for Microbial Single-Cell Genomics. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(5), 4270. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24054270

Kiel Reese, B., Sobol, M. S., Bowles, M. W., & Hinrichs, K.-U. (2021). Redefining the Subsurface Biosphere: Characterization of Fungi Isolated From Energy-Limited Marine Deep Subsurface Sediment. Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffunb.2021.727543

Sobol, M. S., & Kaster, A.-K. (2021). Gezielte Zellsortierung in der Einzelzellgenomik. BIOspektrum, 27(3), 274–276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-021-1569-5

Kaster, A.-K., & Sobol, M. S. (2020). Microbial single-cell omics: the crux of the matter. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 104(19), 8209–8220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-020-10844-0

Dam, H. T., Vollmers, J., Sobol, M. S., Cabezas, A., & Kaster, A.-K. (2020). Targeted Cell Sorting Combined With Single Cell Genomics Captures Low Abundant Microbial Dark Matter With Higher Sensitivity Than Metagenomics. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01377

Sobol, M. S., Hoshino, T., Futagami, T., Inagaki, F., & Kiel Reese, B. (2019). Draft genome sequences of Penicillium spp. from deeply buried oligotrophic marine sediments. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8(6), 10--1128. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01613-18

Kiel Reese, B., Sobol, M. S., Hoshino, T., Inagaki, F., Eder, E., Nicora, C., … others. (2018). Fungal Survival in a Chemosynthetic Ecosystem. In Ocean Worlds (Vol. 2085, p. 6007). Retrieved from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018LPICo2085.6007K/abstract

Sobol, M. S. (2018). Characterizing marine subsurface fungi from oligotrophic South Pacific Gyre sediments. Texas A\&M University-Corpus Christi.

Reese, B. K., Zinke, L. A., Sobol, M. S., LaRowe, D. E., Orcutt, B. N., Zhang, X., … Girguis, P. (2018). Nitrogen Cycling of Active Bacteria within Oligotrophic Sediment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Flank. Geomicrobiology Journal, 35(6), 468–483. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2017.1392649

Sobol, M. S., Zinke, L. A., Orcutt, B., Mills, H. J., Edwards, K. J., Girguis, P. R., & Kiel Reese, B. K. (2016). Investigating the Differences in the Total and Active Microbial Community of Mid-Atlantic Ridge Sediments. In American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting (pp. MM24B--0443). Retrieved from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AGUOSMM24B0443S/abstract