Ruiwen Hu, PhD

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🚨 New preprint as postdoc! We show that carbon oxidation state shapes microbial carbon degradation: Negative NOSC = slower degradation, more methane, more syntrophs & methanogens. 🧬 Fermenter genomes reflect what they eat — carbon catabolic preferences

Lab Director Mike Witherell will retire in June 2026. Witherell has led the Lab through a historic period of scientific achievement and recognized operational excellence, with a deep commitment to developing the next generation of scientists. More ⬇️ newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/07/23/ber…

Northern peatland microbial communities exhibit resistance to warming and acquire electron acceptors from soil organic matter nature.com/articles/s4146…

Back in 1962 microscopy was used to pen a hypothesis about eukaryote-microbe relationships. ~65 years later we have coupled the latest advancements in long read MetaG, MetaP and EUK SAGs to help explain what this means for wider rumen microbiome function nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thermophilic traits correlate with slow growth in permafrost soils biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A versatile dual-color bacterial reporter system highlights two distinct Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type 3 secretion system intracellular populations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New @Nature paper confirming the conclusions in our nature.com/articles/s4158… @carlosguerra_pt Hotspots for soil biodiversity & services including, mychorrizal fungi, remains largely unprotected! If you are interested in the topic, do not miss our original article from 2022!

A mismatch between slow protein synthesis and fast environmental fluctuations determines tradeoffs in bacterial proteome allocation strategies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Geopolymerization threatens the persistence of organic carbon associated with iron in anoxic environments @NatureComms , thanks to all!

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Resource-use plasticity governs the causal relationship between traits and community structure in model microbial communities | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

NEW in @SoilBiolBiochem Phosphorus-transforming microbes enhance phosphatase efficiency to alleviate #phosphorus limitation in subtropical #forest #soil doi.org/10.1016/j.soil… 50-day Free: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lSAM8g13fGrj #enzymes #Fertilisers #Tropics #nitrogen #soilbacteria #soilfungi

Our latest, and the second paper led by Jordan Coelho this year. Want to remove bacteria from POM for single-cell microbiology/culturing/'omics applications? We've got some data: Detergent-based separation of microbes from marine particles biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

piqtree: A Python Package for Seamless Phylogenetic Inference with IQ-TREE biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Constraining biorecalcitrance of carboxyl-rich alicyclic molecules in the ocean science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Systematic engineering of synthetic serine cycles in Pseudomonas putida uncovers emergent topologies for methanol assimilation: Trends in Biotechnology cell.com/trends/biotech…

If you're interested in reading the "behind the paper" story of how we discovered this microbe, have a look at our blog post here: communities.springernature.com/posts/simultan… Sometimes, new discoveries begin not with a grand project, but with an unexpected observation while chasing another story.…

A Bioelectrochemical Crossbar Architecture Screening Platform (BiCASP) for Extracellular Electron Transfer biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain volatile alkanes: Trends in Microbiology cell.com/trends/microbi…

Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR_QUT: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @S_J_Mc @James_Volmer @wwood doi.org/10.1093/ismejo… 🧵1/7