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Ruiwen Hu, PhD @MicrobeCookie

LBNL Postdoc Researcher; Environmental microbiologist

Joined November 2022
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Ruiwen Hu, PhD@MicrobeCookie
Mar 13
We show that hypophosphite, a naturally occurring reduced phosphorus compound, selectively inhibits syntrophic methanogenesis by suppressing formate metabolism, suggesting an overlooked geochemical control on methane production and climate warming. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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nature.com/articles/s41467-0… More evidence of importance of ribosomes in dormancy (here, for spores). Compare 5 previous publications for relevance of ribosomes in persistence (dormancy). Unfortunately, 🧐, follows usual practice in Nat. Comm. of not citing the relevant literature.

Ribosomal allostery as a potential regulator of bacterial dormancy

Nature Communications - Ribosomes are crucial for protein synthesis and managing cellular stress. Here, authors show that ribosomal protein L11 acts as a global regulator, coordinating complex...

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Organizing principles in the Nitrogen–Carbon Landscape of Marine Heterotrophic Bacteria biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Organizing principles in the Nitrogen–Carbon Landscape of Marine Heterotrophic Bacteria

Marine microbes metabolize a wide range of carbon and nitrogen sources, shaping global biogeochemical cycles. Despite being crucial at the global scale, the coupling between carbon and nitrogen...

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Jun 10
Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-1…

Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis

Nature - Phylogenomic reconstruction of the proteome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor sheds light on the origin of eukaryotes, indicating an important role of horizontal transfer of genes...

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A Bactericidal Phospholipase from Archaea biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

A Bactericidal Phospholipase from Archaea

Archaea kill bacteria, at least on occasion. The molecular underpinnings of these lethal interactions are barely understood. Here, we describe cinquedea, an α/β hydrolase secreted by the halophilic...

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Jun 10
🌍 We're kicking off Day 1 of the 2nd IBMC workshop! With over 100 participants hailing from 13 countries in Oban at SAMS! 🚀 Welcomed by our leaders, Nick Owens (SAMS director) and John Coates (IBMC director). Let’s embark on this extraordinary journey together! 💡
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A fixed methane filter maximizes freshwater emissions under warming nature.com/articles/s41558-0…

A fixed methane filter maximizes freshwater emissions under warming

Nature Climate Change - How the balance of microbial methane production and oxidation in freshwater systems will change with warming is unclear. This study uses natural warming experiments to...

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Jun 5
Communicating microbiology effectively dlvr.it/TStfCm #MicroSky

Communicating microbiology effectively

Nature Microbiology - Effective science communication can help scientists shape impactful research questions, and crucially it can foster curiosity, showcase the importance of research and...

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Eco-evolutionary dynamics of massive, parallel bacteriophage outbreaks in compost communities | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of massive, parallel bacteriophage outbreaks in compost communities

A single bacteriophage can dominate microbial communities yet only evolves when migration changes its ecological context.

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Single nucleotide variants drive evolutionary phage-host arms race in anaerobic carbon dioxide-converting microbiome nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Single nucleotide variants drive evolutionary phage-host arms race in anaerobic carbon dioxide-co...

Nature Communications - In this study, the authors track microbial communities in a perturbed cultivation vessel and show that methanogenic microbes develop resilience through CRISPR-Cas mutations...

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The heterogeneous selection landscape of genome evolution in prokaryotes | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26…

The heterogeneous selection landscape of genome evolution in prokaryotes | PNAS

Evolution of prokaryote genomes appears to be defined by the interplay of selection for genome streamlining, deletion bias, and selection for funct...

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Deoxygenation in inland freshwater systems nature.com/articles/s43017-0…

Deoxygenation in inland freshwater systems

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Widespread declines in dissolved oxygen concentrations in lakes and rivers have ecological and socioeconomic consequences. This Review highlights spatial...

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Physiological trade-offs drive the archaeal dominance and carbon turnover in deep subsurface biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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The legacy of soil chemistry: a hidden manipulator driving plant–soil feedbacks: Trends in Microbiology cell.com/trends/microbiology…

The legacy of soil chemistry: a hidden manipulator driving plant–soil feedbacks

Plants actively reshape the soil environment through their roots and associated microbes, creating lasting changes known as soil legacies that influence future plant generations via plant–soil...

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Global carbon fixation in Earth’s subsurface biosphere biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Coarse-graining metabolic networks via feature learning reveals cross-species growth laws biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Article: Redox cycles drive oxic methane production in rice rhizosphere nature.com/articles/s41561-0…

Circadian redox oscillations drive oxic methane production in the rhizosphere

Nature Geoscience - Circadian redox oscillations in the rhizosphere are shown to generate methane in the presence of oxygen, revealing a chemical pathway contributing to paddy methane emissions,...

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Methanotroph-driven phosphorus recovery for sustainable wastewater management nature.com/articles/s41893-0…

Methanotroph-driven phosphorus recovery for sustainable wastewater management

Nature Sustainability - Low-carbon biological phosphorus recovery is indispensable for achieving sustainable wastewater management but remains challenging. This work discovers a methanotrophic...

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Oxygen gradients reshape cross-feeding through emergent spatial organization of gut commensal bacteria biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Rumen ciliates modulate methane emissions in ruminants | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Rumen ciliates modulate methane emissions in ruminants

Rumen ciliates are major contributors to enteric methane emissions from ruminant animals, yet the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. We present a catalog of 450 rumen ciliate genomes,...

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As U.S. pushes to expand uranium mines, opponents warn of ‘ticking time bomb’ | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…

As U.S. pushes to expand uranium mines, opponents warn of ‘ticking time bomb’

Method that leaches radioactive metal from aquifers can leave groundwater contaminated, researchers say

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