I have been working with Tristan Caro on a second microbial lipid turnover project. This time we are working with permafrost soils. Tristan has completed several isotope incubations for these soils at different temperatures, and together we have extracted total DNA. Our next step will be 16S rRNA marker gene sequencing and bioinformatics to compare microbial community assembly over time for the permafrost soils under different temperatures. We are taking a climate change lens and trying to understand microbial community composition and function following thaw due to increasing temperatures.
I will post manuscript details here when they become available.
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AuthorSierra is a graduate student in the Barger Lab at CU Boulder studying microbial ecology for dryland restoration. Archives
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