The Northen Lab recently hosted two interns from the Netherlands’ Wageningen University, Michelle Van Winden and Cathelijne Lamboo. Our lab’s connection with Wageningen University began when 40 PhD students from the Microbiology and the Systems and Synthetic Biology Departments visited the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Joint Genome Institute in June […]
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The Northen Lab continues to support and promote STEM outreach and education at the Berkeley Lab, participating in the Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprenticeship Program (BLDAP) for the fourth consecutive year in the summer of 2023. BLDAP is a 6-week, project-based STEM program for high school students, prioritizing underrepresented groups from […]
Northen Lab researchers Spencer Diamond, Peter Andeer, and Trent R. Northen and collaborators from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, recently co-authored an International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) Communications paper: “Fine scale sampling reveals early differentiation of rhizosphere microbiome from bulk soil in young […]
Northen Lab researchers Vanessa Brisson, Suzanne Kosina, and Trent Northen co-authored the publication “Dynamic Phaeodactylum tricornutum exometabolites shape surrounding bacterial communities”. While the role algal exometabolites play in regulating microbial community composition is not fully understood, this paper identifies algal exudates from the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum and demonstrates their […]
In collaboration with the Johannes Lehmann’s Lab at Cornell University, Northen Lab researchers Benjamin Bowen, Suzanne Kosina, and Trent Northen co-authored the recent research article “Decomposition decreases molecular diversity and ecosystem similarity of soil organic matter” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The goal of the […]
Northen Lab researchers Markus de Raad, Benjamin Bowen, Kai Deng, and Trent Northen recently authored a research article in the Journal of Biological Chemistry investigating a new high-throughput method for screening aminotransferase (AT) activity. Although aminotransferases play a central role in nitrogen metabolism for all species, the functionality of these […]