Check out Zoila Alvarez Aponte 's work on corrinoid production in soil isolates here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (3/3)

Vitamin B12 variants structure soil microbial communities despite soil's vast reservoir of B12. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Phylogenetic distribution and experimental characterization of corrinoid production and dependence in soil bacterial isolates [conserved in 47 out of 85 genera] The ISME Journal by Zoila Alvarez Aponte et al from Taga Lab academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

it's preprint day! happy to share my first piece of postdoc work as well as my first in the marine space, this time, exploring the biology of bacteria and archaea fixing carbon with rubisco in the deep water column

Researchers Zoila Alvarez Aponte, Zachary Hallberg, Alexa M Nicolas, and others in the Taga Lab have developed a new model that allows them to dissect how one nutrient impacts microbial communities across scales by influencing intermicrobial interactions. plantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu/news/2024/07/m…

Codon bias, nucleotide selection, and genome size predict in situ bacterial growth rate and transcription in rewetted soil pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

The Columbia Postdoctoral Workers Organizing Committee condemns the ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil. We demand that Columbia restore its sanctuary campus policy and fight back against threats to the safety of international workers. Full statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1pL4ZWG…

With congressional budget hearings approaching, we are facing massive funding cuts to federal research agencies. In response, a coalition of higher education workers and labor unions are uniting to Kill the Cuts! Join us and countless others on April 8th for a day of mass action!

1/ Excited to share our new study in Cell :"Conserved genetic basis for microbial colonization of the gut" We present a tree-of-life-scale genotype-habitat association that reveals conserved gene modules in gut microbes—and identifies novel colonization factors.

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