UC Berkeley • ESPM & PMB
Joined July 2017
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Firestone Lab retweeted
25 Oct 2024
Great job to Rina Estera-Molina & her @Firestone_Lab team for showcasing our 13CO2 labeling facility in a high level visit! We were honored to have @DrChavonda from the @USDA stop by to see how we track carbon from plant to microbes to minerals.
@Livermore_Lab @doescience
We were honored to give @USDA Under Secretary @DrChavonda Jacobs-Young a peek at UC Berkeley research during a tour of the Oxford Facility's greenhouse and field space last week. Read more about the research and her visit: nature.berkeley.edu/news/202…
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Firestone Lab retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Exciting job opportunities in Hawai‘i! The new Hawai‘i Soil Microbiome Lab smil.bio/ led by Dr. Maggie Yuan @uhmanoa is hiring a lab tech and a postdoc to work on soil-borne pathogen ecology. Spread the word!
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Firestone Lab retweeted
25 Apr 2024
Our paper exploring AMF carbon transfer to the hyphosphere microbial food web and mineral-assossiated organic matter is out today in a special issue of @NewPhyt! 🌿 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph.19560 🍄@Jeffinerca @ecologicaljack @Firestone_Lab @erinnuccio
25 Apr 2024
Integrating perspectives in developing #mycorrhizal trait #databases: a call for inclusive & collaborative continental efforts
Viewpoint by María Isabel Mujica, @silvafloresdra, @GuilleBuenoG, @jessyduchicela
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#MycorrhizalResearchNow @southmycorrhiza
ALT View of the soil mycorrhizal community in a hypothetical forest dominated by oak species associated with different types of mycorrhizal fungi that form separate underground networks (MN) that may possibly be used to transport amino acids, carbohydrates, fatty acids, signaling microRNAs or peptides and hormones.
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Firestone Lab retweeted
25 Mar 2024
Our manuscript is out: 'The path from root input to mineral-associated soil carbon is dictated by habitat-specific microbial traits and soil moisture.' We show that the microbial traits associated with soil C are not universal, but vary with soil habitat.
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Firestone Lab retweeted
29 Sep 2023
Soil viruses the minute the first seasonal rainfall hits the ground:
29 Sep 2023
Despite vast compositional differences across soils, rewetting of dry soils consistently resulted in a bloom of viral diversity (up to a >30-fold increase in vOTU richness 24 h after wet-up!), followed by extreme turnover of viral populations.
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Firestone Lab retweeted
21 Sep 2023
Do soil #viruses drive #GHG emissions? In dry systems, soil microbes start to multiply rapidly after the first rain (“wet-up”). A massive die-off happens too, releasing a huge burst of #CO2.
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Firestone Lab retweeted
14 Apr 2023
To quote my muse, Lizzo: it's about damn time
@Firestone_Lab @erinnuccio @Jeffinerca
Expression of macromolecular organic nitrogen degrading enzymes identifies potential mediators of soil organic N availability to an annual grass nature.com/articles/s41396-0…
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Firestone Lab retweeted
13 Mar 2023
Finally approved! I'm hiring 4 postdocs!
1) Soil OM/Isotope Biogeochem – REF4214O
2) Microbe Mineral Interactions – REF4265Z
3) Soil Ecology – REF4260E
4) Soil Microbiome Bioinformatics – REF4259F
Apply here: llnl.gov/join-our-team/caree…
Find me at #GSB2023, or see 👇
Please RT!!
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24 Jan 2023
Immensely proud of the freshly crowned Dr. @AlexaMNicolas who just gave her finishing talk. #soil
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Firestone Lab retweeted
30 Nov 2022
🚨 MY LAB IS STILL HIRING 🚨
Do you love the #microbiome? Want to do #metagenomics and #MachineLearning? We want postdocs to develop, characterize, and #CRISPR edit in vitro human microbiome systems.
More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03…
#biojobs #postdocjobs #ScienceTwitter
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Firestone Lab retweeted
28 Nov 2022
In our new 'high-throughput' SIP-metaG paper, @nuccio, @AKakouridis @rachelhestrin et al. targeted the tiny habitat surrounding AM hyphae. They IDed 13C fixed by the host plant, moved by hyphae and taken up by a complex micro food web of bacteria and AOA.
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Firestone Lab retweeted
28 Nov 2022
Finally out!
HT-SIP: a semi-automated stable isotope probing pipeline identifies cross-kingdom interactions in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Be sure to check out the cool video!
@Jeffinerca @erinnuccio @Firestone_Lab @acampbellina
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Firestone Lab retweeted
10 Nov 2022
PMB graduate student @AlexaMNicolas, a member of the @Firestone_Lab and @UCBTagaLab, shares her new findings on soil viruses—an abundant and ubiquitous member of the microbiome—and their link to carbon emissions in this recent research spotlight.
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Firestone Lab retweeted
3 Oct 2022
super interesting story here....you know the 'Birch Effect' right? what if it were all because of phage?
(hint--its complicated...)
1 Oct 2022
Isotope-enrichment reveals active viruses follow microbial host dynamics during rewetting of a California grassland soil biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
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We’ve been studying the phenomenon of wet-up in soil for decades and finally @AlexaMNicolas has illuminated what is happening at the viral level. #soil biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Firestone Lab retweeted
3 Oct 2022
In california seasonally dry soils release a disproportionate amount of carbon into the atmosphere after the first rainfall. Read about how @AlexaMNicolas investigates the role of viruses in this phenomenon here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Firestone Lab retweeted
3 Oct 2022
Super excited to share my paper – the big project of my PhD – that looks at what happens to viruses during the magical moment in soil following the first rainfall after a long dry season. This was a big project w @SieraVirus @BanfieldLab @Firestone_Lab @Jeffinerca @UCBTagaLab 🧵
1 Oct 2022
Isotope-enrichment reveals active viruses follow microbial host dynamics during rewetting of a California grassland soil biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
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Firestone Lab retweeted
2 Oct 2022
behold! a tremendous piece of work from @AlexaMNicolas et al describing the strange fascinating world of soil viruses, and a masterclass in extracting (and visualizing) trends from large, complex, and incredibly heterogenous sequencing data 🧬
1 Oct 2022
Isotope-enrichment reveals active viruses follow microbial host dynamics during rewetting of a California grassland soil biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
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Firestone Lab retweeted
21 Sep 2022
I am beyond excited to be receiving the Department of Energy E.O. Lawrence Award tomorrow in at a hybrid ceremony Washington DC. 1:30pm EST... If you'd like to watch live or the recording of my (only slightly goofy) 3 min speech--here's the link.
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Firestone Lab retweeted
11 Sep 2022
Very excited about this paper and cover being out! Thank you @NewPhyt @Firestone_Lab @Jeffinerca @ecologicaljack for your help and support making this happen! #AMF #isotopes #microscopy
9 Sep 2022
New issue #NPCover features hypha of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus intraradices transporting water with a fluorescent dye to the root of its host plant Avena barbata (wild oat).
Read more about the research in @AKakouridis et al. ow.ly/EvS850KEJfW
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