Northen Lab researchers Marc Goethem, Andrew Osborn, Ben Bowen, Tami Swenson, and Trent Northen are authors on the recently published paper “Long-read metagenomics of soil communities reveals phylum-specific secondary metabolite dynamics.” Key to this paper are biosynthetic gene clusters, or BGCs, which are groups of genes that encode a metabolic […]
Publications
32 posts
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 […]
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,” […]
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 […]