we have quite a few sagittarius birthdays in the lab! happy birthday from the picket line to kenny, dennis, becky, and alexa! 💖🎁🎂🥳

New paper alert! Undergrad extraordinaire Myka Green worked with Zoila Alvarez Aponte to isolate a new soil bacterial species that she grew using a natural cobalamin analog. ASM doi.org/10.1128/mra.00…

Our latest paper by is up on @BioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…. We stitched sequences to make synthetic riboswitches that harness cobalamin's power to ignite gene expression. Behold our ingenious creation: Frankenswitches! Check it out and let us know your thoughts!

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=…

Zoila Alvarez Aponte and Becky Procknow gave some incredible talks at West Coast Bacterial Physiologists! 🌟

we also went on a little butterfly outing 🦋🌟

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

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

In Taga Lab Zoila, Zachary Hallberg, and I dove into studying the impact of nutrients like Vitamin B12 (corrinoids) on community-wide & isolate-specific scales. How often do you see paired studies like these?! Our sibling papers are out now in The ISME Journal! academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

plantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu/news/2024/07/m…

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…