T. R. Northen

This study shows that virus-infected cyanobacteria release metabolites that attract heterotrophic bacteria, enhancing nutrient transfer in marine ecosystems.

This study evaluates how different inoculation practices and harvesting times affect microbial community reproducibility in a fabricated ecosystem with Brachypodium distachyon.

The paper shows that cysteine is an ancestral Cu(I) ligand in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, as Zn deficiency disrupts Cu homeostasis and increases cysteine levels, which co-localize with Cu in acidocalcisomes.

The paper examines spatial microbial heterogeneity in Brachypodium roots using EcoFABs, revealing distinct microbial communities at root tips and bases with different functional gene profiles.

This study uses EcoFAB 2.0 to show nitrogen form and starvation affect Brachypodium root exudation, with specific compounds influencing bacterial and plant growth.

This study examines how water status affects ultraviolet radiation responses in two moss species using transcriptomics and metabolomics.

The paper uses 13C-tracing to study plant uptake of exometabolites across multiple species, finding that uptake accounts for 23% of the carbon budget in Brachypodium distachyon and that some metabolites promote root growth.

This study identifies specific exometabolites from the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum that influence bacterial community composition in isolation and in a community setting.

The paper assesses microbiome performance in plant cell wall deconstruction using network analysis and identifies key microbial populations and enzymes involved.

The paper introduces BIMA, a method to analyze interspecific interactions in biofilm co-cultures by examining colony morphology, inhibition, invasion, and associated genes/metabolites.

The paper develops a defined medium (NLDM) for cultivating soil bacteria and profiling exometabolites, showing it supports growth of 53 diverse isolates and enables metabolite tracking via LC-MS/MS.

The paper uses ribosomal marker protein profiling to show that isolate substrate preferences are conserved in a synthetic soil community and can be predicted by a weighted-sum model.

This study examines how microbial communities in leaf litter adapt to long-term drought through metatranscriptomic and metabolomic analyses in Californian grass and shrub ecosystems.

The paper shows that Brachypodium distachyon consistently responds to soil conditions across labs, depleting soil metabolites and altering root morphology.

This paper constructs environmentally relevant soil defined media using exometabolomic analysis of soil metabolites, showing they support bacterial growth and reveal substrate preferences.

The paper integrates metabolite profiling, sequencing, and exometabolomics to link microbial community structure with environmental chemistry in soil.