Publications & Products

Publications

2020

Pett-Ridge, J., S. Shi, K. Estera-Molina, E.E. Nuccio, M. Yuan, R. Rijkers, T. Swenson, K. Zhalnina, T. Northen, J. Zhou, M.K. Firestone. 2020. Rhizosphere carbon turnover from cradle to grave: the role of microbe-plant interactions, in Rhizosphere Biology: Interactions with plants, V. Gupta & A.K. Sharma, Eds. Springer Nature Press. In press, expected Aug 2020.

Barnard, Romain, S Blazewicz, and M Firestone. 2020. Rewetting of soil: revisiting the origin of soil CO2 emissions. Soil Biol Biochem, Doi 10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107819 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107819

Blazewicz, Steve, B Hungate, B Koch, E Nuccio, E Morrissey, E Brodie, E Schwartz, J Pett-Ridge, M Firestone. 2020. Taxon-Specific Microbial Growth and Mortality Patterns Reveal Distinct Temporal Population Responses to Rewetting in a California Grassland Soil. ISME J. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0617-3

Nuccio, E.E., E. Starr, U. Karaoz, E.L. Brodie, J. Zhou, S. Tringe, R.R. Malmstrom, T. Woyke, J. Banfield, M.K. Firestone and J. Pett-Ridge. 2020. Niche differentiation is spatially and temporally regulated in the rhizosphere. ISME Journal 14: 999-1014 doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0582-x

Fossum, Christina Anne. 2020. Allocation and dynamics of recently fixed plant carbon in a California rangeland soil. Master’s Thesis UC Berkeley.

2019

Starr, E.P., E.E. Nuccio, J. Pett-Ridge, J.F. Banfield* and M.K. Firestone*. 2019. Metatranscriptomic reconstruction reveals RNA viruses with the potential to shape carbon cycling in the rhizosphere, detritosphere and bulk soil. PNAS 116: 25900-25908 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908291116

Products

Talks

“How phage and fauna (and fungi) shape the flow and fate of root carbon through microbial pathways” Jennifer Pett-Ridge

    • Invited departmental seminar at Northwestern University Plant Biology and Conservation Program (May 2020)

“Rhizosphere-nitrogen Dynamics Through a Metratransciptomic Lens” Ella Sieradzki

    • ISME Microseminar Virtual meeting (May 2020) Link

“A Root Runs Through It” Mary Firestone

    • OrgN 2020. Monte Verita, Switzerland (Feb 2020)

“Cross-Kingdom Interactions: the Foundation for Nutrient Cycling in Grassland Soils” Javier Ceja-Navarro

    • Genomic Sciences Program Annual PI Meeting Washington DC (Feb 2020)

“Cross-Kingdom Interactions: the Foundation for Nutrient Cycling in Grassland Soils” Joanne Emerson

    • Genomic Sciences Program Annual PI Meeting Washington DC (Feb 2020)

“Microbial and Viral Niche-Differentiation in Time-Resolved Metatranscriptomes from Rhizosphere and Detritusphere Soil” Ella Sieradzki

    • Genomic Sciences Program Annual PI Meeting Washington DC (Feb 2020)

“Death and decay in the soil microbiome: how viruses, microfauna and resource availability shape the fate of soil carbon” Jennifer Pett-Ridge

    • American Geophysical Union 100th Fall Meeting San Francisco, CA (Dec 2020)

“Influence of Reduced Precipitation on the Allocation of Persistence of Root Carbon in a California Annual Grassland” Christina Fossum

    • American Geophysical Union 100th Fall Meeting San Francisco, CA (Dec 2020)

“Comparative Metagenomics Reveals Nanoscale Soil Viral Communities in a CA Annual Grassland Soil” Alexa Nicolas

    • American Geophysical Union 100th Fall Meeting San Francisco, CA (Dec 2020)

“Dynamic Carbon Association with Minerals in the Rhizosphere and Detritosphere” Rachel Neurath

    • American Geophysical Union 100th Fall Meeting San Francisco, CA (Dec 2020)

“Cross Kingdom Interactions Shape the Soil Microbiome” Mary Firestone

    • Soil Sciences Institute, Nanjing (Nov 2019)
    • Zhejiang University, Hangzhoum (Nov 2019)
    • RCEES. Beijin (Nov 2019)
    • Peking University (Nov 2019)
    • Purdue University (Jan 2020)

“Network Analysis Reveals Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Bacterial-Fungal Co-occurrence” Mengting Yuan

    • Chinese Microbial Ecology Conference Changsha, China (Oct 2019)
    • American Geophysical Union 100th Fall Meeting San Francisco, CA (Dec 2019)

Posters

“Cross-Kingdom Interactions: the Foundation for Nutrient Cycling in Grassland Soils” Joanne Emerson

    • Genomic Sciences Program Annual PI Meeting Washington DC (Feb 2020)

“Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Transport a Significant Amocunt of Water to Host Plants” Anne Kakouridis

    • Geophysical Union 100th Fall Meeting San Francisco, CA (Dec 2019)

“Nitrogen Breakdown and Assimilation Pathways in Rhizosphere and Detritusphere Soil from Time-Resolved Microbial Metatransciptomes” Ella Sieradzki

    • Geophysical Union 100th Fall Meeting San Francisco, CA (Dec 2019)

News

“The Viral Universe”, The Economist. 20 August 2020. Page 9.