What great timing for twooting about our new paper on soil viruses. I have elected to get some help from a mastodon and a bird. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… (1/7)

Viral communities across grasslands aren't uniform & understanding those dynamics could lead to better insight into how bacteria in soil will react to drought & climate changes, according to research from Joanne Emerson Christian Santos-Medellín published in PNASNews caes.ucdavis.edu/news/grassland…

Hot off the press! Latest work by Mia Sungeun LEE characterizing active viruses of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in soil using a new twist on DNA-SIP 😀 doi.org/10.1038/s41396… 🎗Ella Sieradzki 🐈🐕 Graeme Nicol Christina Hazard

We updated our paper: Systematic Discovery of Antibacterial and Antifungal Bacterial Toxins biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Viruses are tiny, but play a big ecological role. Researchers UC Davis, UC Merced, UC Berkeley & Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory monitored areas of grasslands, with some only getting 50% of average rainfall. They found the viruses reacted quickly to the drought conditions: ucdavis.edu/blog/grassland…

This is a great opportunity for any microbial ecologist looking for a postdoc. Exciting research topic, phenomenal advisor, and great colleagues.

Happy to share a new preprint with Joanne Emerson. Viral communities with minimal compositional overlap display remarkably similar successional trends upon rewetting dry soils. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨Preprint alert! Excited to share our newest #preprint on #virus diversity and activity in high-altitude soils. A joint effort with Simon Roux and &ratt’ Group 🙏. Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/biorxi…

New paper alert!🌋🌊🧬🦠 I'm so excited to share our paper "Viruses interact with hosts that span distantly related microbial domains in dense hydrothermal mats" 1/ nature.com/articles/s4156…

Our work starting to unravel some of the genetic drivers of the switchgrass root microbiome is out! It has been a fun and rewarding project. Lots of spin-offs coming from this. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Soil viruses the minute the first seasonal rainfall hits the ground:

This is *why* methods matter for #SoilHealth indicators: the 24 hr interval of the #HaneyTest represents an entirely different microbial community activity than at 72 or 96 hrs (as in the Cornell test).

First step in a community project to provide a uniformly assembled, annotated and searchable set of bacterial genomes, our preprint on our initial release of 1.9 million genome assemblies+taxonomic estimates. (figure compares with previous 661k dataset) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…