Exploring the world of Sensory Transduction in microorganisms at #GRCSTIM2024 in Ventura, California! 🌐 Here's a snapshot of our brilliant team, soaking in knowledge and forging scientific connections. 🔬 #TeamScience #ResearchCommunity #LabLife #ScienceConference

Super stoked to share this paper, now in its final form @Environmicrobi !! Thanks to the reviewers who helped us improve our story that began with a totally epic time-series of post-fire soil samples and ends with a dynamic and pyrophilous subcommunity!

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Not ideal that I'm losing my voice the day I needed to give my talk at #MSAfungi23 ! But the Fungi and Fire session this morning was awesome! 🍄🍄🔥🔥Dr Sydney Glassman Monika Fischer

We are seeking a new faculty member in Soil Carbon Science, more details here:
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Monika Fischer showing off some pyrophilous mushrooms #msafungi2024

Enjoying the progress of Mira's amazing work with post-fire microbes Traxler Lab! Glad to see you again since our great time at Dubrovnik #SSAMM2022 ! Love these academic connections ❤️ #ASP2023

Getting ready for the GRC to kick off ! 🥳🥳.

So great to spend time with current and former labmates !

Jovana Kaljevic Ophélie Remy
Géraldine Laloux Luis Streptomyces coelicolor Traxler Lab
#BacCell23 #TraxLab

Massive CONGRATS to newly minted Dr. Neem J. Patel !!! 🎉🎉🎉 Absolutely phenomenal Phinishing Talk. My heart is bursting 🥹. It’s been such and honor and a privilege to be her postdoc mentor and partner in science! Watch out, cause she’s on fire!!🔥 Traxler Lab Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology

Having a data/file organizing day and realized I never finished my annual tradition of updating this plot of CA wildfires (total acres burned +highlighting specific named fires that burned >100,000acres). 2022 was a phenomenally moist year, with nary a fire >100K!🔥

Student-focused one-day microbiology conference at UC Berkeley next month!!! Open to all! Registration is FREE! ....as a former chair of this event, I'm totally biased in saying this is one of the most awesome micro events ever. Come hang, share your work, met new micro-pals!

Best papers of 2022 in ecology and evolution, according to members of Mordecai (Erin Mordecai), Peay (@mykophile), and Fukami labs at Stanford University

web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/paper…

My new talk for iBiology will be posted on Nov 15! In the meantime, check out the 2022 Share Your Research trailer youtu.be/uCRTqL4COxc via YouTube

Thrilled to announce that Matt will be giving his tenure talk at the Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology seminar this Wednesday @ noon (PT)! Join us in person or on Zoom!

Very excited to announce that, with co-PIs Eoin Brodie and Traxler Lab, we are setting up a new, NSF funded post bac RaMP training program on microbiomes! Stay tuned for more soon!

Diversity of genomic adaptations to the post-fire environment in Pezizales fungi points to crosstalk between charcoal tolerance and sexual development MycoCosm; Monika Fischer; Traxler Lab; Bernard Henrissat

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Check out our latest paper all about fire-following Ascomycetes🍄! Stellar comparative genomics led by Andrei Steindorff & Igor Grigoriev Joint Genome Institute DOE Office of Science
🧬6 new fungal genomes
🔥 selection for charcoal-tolerance genes
🍄 fruiting body development

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So many rad female fire scientists at #ISME18 !! Fantastic 🔥 pitch from Neem J. Patel, who burned a couple forests using prescribed fire and then followed the soil microbial communities for 18months afterward. Go visit her at poster # 536 to learn how the microbes responded! 🍄🦠

🔥 pitch by Monika Fischer at #ISME18 on her work examining soil microbial community recovery following prescribed burns in a Northern California mixed conifer forest. Check out her rad poster #056 at this evenings poster session to learn about her findings!

TraxLab @ #ISME18 !! Don’t miss Neem J. Patel’s poster (# 491) tomorrow, and Monika Fischer’s poster (# 056) on Thursday!

Yoon Min sharing his stellar Streptomyces genetics work in our lab with this awesome poster at the Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology Undergrad Summer Poster Session! Congrats to all who presented!