Ying Wang and Trent Northen wrote a Genome Watch article published in a recent issue of Nature Reviews Microbiology. The article explores how cognitive performance can be enhanced by metabolites and microorganisms and focuses on research from across a wide range of host organisms. One of the examples is a […]
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The Northen Lab presented multiple posters at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, from December 13-17, 2021. Among the posters was “Retention of Low Molecular Weight Soil Organic Carbon (C) Affected by Minerals”, led by Qing Zheng. Soils store a significant amount of carbon (up to twice the amount […]
Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking, or GNPS, is a platform built for the analysis of MSMS data using crowdsourced MS libraries [2,3]. Northen Lab members Ben Bowen, Katherine Louie, and Trent Northen recently contributed to the paper “GNPS Dashboard: collaborative exploration of mass spectrometry data in the web browser,” […]
The EcoBOT consists of a liquid handling robot with a built in, custom growth chamber, imaging stations and a robotic arm that integrates these components. To learn more, visit the EcoFAB website or watch the video below: Videography: Marilyn Sargent
Two Northen Lab researchers, Tami Swenson and Trent Northen, contributed to a paper examining how biocrusts may influence soil fertility and biogeochemical cycling in subsurface mineral soils (soil deeper than 2cm). The role of biocrusts in relation to organic carbon and nutrient cycling is relatively opaque, but is an important […]
Northen Lab members and JGI Metabolomics have contributed to a few recent -omics publications in addition to other research efforts that have been highlighted in previous posts. Learn more about the use of metabolomics at JGI in the following papers: Enhanced production of metabolites confirmed with LCMS[1] Due to increased […]
Getting back to the grass roots: harnessing specialized metabolites for improved crop stress resilience Northen Lab researchers Yezhang Ding and Trent Northen contributed to a recent paper published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology that reviewed the families and functions of grass root specialized metabolites (GRSM), integrative approaches for GRSM pathway […]
The latest issue of Phytobiomes Journal, Volume 5 No. 2, has been released. Included in the issue are two papers with Northen Lab researchers, focusing on aspects of the root microbiome. Volume 5 No. 1 also includes an editorial led by a NL member for the Focus Issue on Phytobiomes […]
Phosphate Availability Modulates Root Exudate Composition and Rhizosphere Microbial Community in a Teosinte and a Modern Maize Cultivar Crop domestication, while focused on above ground traits, has had unintended impacts on below ground plant characteristics. How these changes have influenced rhizosphere interactions remains poorly understood. We investigated the impacts of […]
A review paper was recently published in RSC Chemical Biology by researchers at the Northen Lab. Dr. Noel Ha and 4 other scientists reviewed recent microfluidic approaches that have been successfully integrated with mass spectrometry analysis for high-throughput bioassays to improve throughput, sensitivity, and specificity. High-throughput screening technologies are widely […]