The Northen group is excited to support the Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprenticeship Program (BLDAP) for a second year in the summer of 2021! BLDAP provides an opportunity for underrepresented public high school students (including African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Latinos, LGBTQ+, students from low income households, and first-generation college attendees) […]
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The Northen Lab is excited to welcome back Albina Khasanova, who returned to the lab to work with Kate Zhalnina. Get to know Albina in the following interview. What is your area of expertise? Could you talk a little bit about your background and what brought you to your field? […]
The Northen Lab is excited to welcome Jenny Onley to the lab as an affiliate researcher. Learn more about Jenny in the following interview. What is your area of expertise? Could you talk a little bit about your background and what brought you to your field? My expertise is in […]
The Northen Lab is excited to feature Edi Wipf, a postdoc who is working with Kate Zhalnina to study plant-microbe interactions. Learn more about Edi in the following interview. What is your area of expertise? Could you talk a little bit about your background and what brought you to your […]
The Northen Lab is excited to welcome Yezhang Ding, a new project scientist with research experience in plant science. Learn more about Yezhang in the following interview. What is your area of expertise? Could you talk a little bit about your background and what brought you to your field? I […]
The Northen Lab would like to welcome Vlastimil Novak, a new postdoc with a background in plant science and mass spectrometry! We are looking forward to working with Vlastimil and you can learn a bit about him in this interview. What is your area of expertise? Could you talk a little […]
What is your area of expertise? Could you talk a little bit about your background and what brought you to your field? My expertise is in soil microbial ecology. My scientific background has been a bit meandering (I started as a geologist), but I have always followed the questions that […]
In a collaboration with the Yoshikuni lab at JGI and the Dangl lab at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Lauren Jabusch of the Northen Lab demonstrated imaging of 9 different colors of fluorescent bacteria within a single EcoFAB. This work is part of the paper “CRAGE-Duet Facilitates Modular Assembly […]
We have a new publication with scientists at the University of California Davis and the University of Texas at Austin: “Bioactive Diterpenoids Impact the Composition of the Root-Associated Microbiome in Maize (Zea mays).” Metabolomics analysis identified dolabralexin diterpenoids as metabolites that influence the rhizosphere and bacterial communities associated with maize. […]
Trent Northen was recently interviewed by Richard Jacobs, host of the Finding Genius podcast, in a conversation titled “Living Earth: Studying the Microbial Community in Soil.” The Finding Genius podcast highlights experts conducting novel and exciting research in health, medicine, and biosciences topics. In the interview, he discusses his research […]