About

I’m George Schaible, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Barbara. I study uncultured sulfur-oxidizing bacteria — Thiovulum in particular — using single-cell techniques (Raman microspectroscopy, FISH, SIP-NanoSIMS, correlative microscopy) to connect physiology and ultrastructure to ecosystem function.

I also build my own scientific instruments. Most of the gear I use day-to-day for sample handling, custom microscopy, and field work is 3D-printed, microcontroller-based, or both. Everything I build, I share openly.

The brand

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Microbial Quanta comes from the idea that quanta are irreducible fundamental units — the small parts that make up organisms, communities, and ecosystems. The logo is an assembly: tiny dots at the periphery, dense and large at the center, with a single teal point as the focal “quantum.”

Contact

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• Email: contact@microbialquanta.com
• Bluesky: @quantaofgeorge.bsky.social
• GitHub: @georgeschaible
• ORCID: 0000-0000-0000-0000

CV

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A current CV is available as a PDF. Drop the file in static/files/ to enable the link.