The Taga lab is looking for an undergrad! Project focuses on the role of nutrients in shaping bacterial communities Would be fantastic if yall could help us spread the word or bump the application to anyone who might be interested 🧫🧪🔬🦠💖 urapprojects.berkeley.edu/detail.php?id=…

Newly published research led by Alexa M Nicolas—a recent Taga Lab and Firestone Lab graduate—combines @banfieldlab techniques for genome-resolved metagenomics to detail the link between soil viruses and greenhouse gas emissions. Read more at Institute for Geographic Information Science: innovativegenomics.org/news/rainy-sea…

A belated congrats to Zoila Alvarez Aponte for presenting her posted at #Microbiology2023 🎊🦠

Genetic dissection of regulation by a repressing and novel activating corrinoid riboswitch enables engineering of synthetic riboswitches mBio from Taga Lab journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Everyone say congrats to Becky Procknow on her new paper!!! (special shoutouts to Kris Kennedy and undergrads Lesley and Max!) Read up on corrinoid riboswitches here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

we also went on a little butterfly outing 🦋🌟

Fresh off the virtual press – new work from @Tagalab with @Zhallberg! A little behind the scenes on the findings and makings of this project:

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-…

Congratulations to NSF RaMP Scholar Hazel Anagu on an amazing talk at Micro Student Group Student Symposium!!! 🎉✨

Congratulations to Becky Procknow on a Phenomenal Phinishing talk!!! 🎉🎉🎉 you've really (ribo)switched on our excitement for corrinoids and gene regulation!

Congrats to Hazel Anagu on the incredible talk for the NSF RaMP symposium! Catch her at ASM this summer as well as at Tetrapyrroles GRC to learn about nutrient based microbial interactions in soil! 🎉

Forgot to use #ASMicrobe but come talk to us about soil microbial communities, evolution, and nutrient exchange! 🦠

My first, first author paper is out in The ISME Journal ! Over the past few years in the Taga Lab we have been learning about how soil bacteria share corrinoids, largely thanks to funding from @DOEScience. Here, we got some answers by studying isolates.🧵 doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…