Traxler Lab
@TraxLab
from molecules to ecosystems @PMB_Berkeley
Our recent work on Actinobacterial G protein systems is live on bioRxiv! These regulatory systems are conserved in Actinomycetota and are involved in secondary metabolism, phage defense, and cellular development. Check out the preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
"UBC Forestry has an incredible research community representing a broad diversity of approaches and perspectives."🍄🔥 Meet @MonikaSFischer, the newest #UBCForestry and @UBCBotany Assistant Professor👋 💡 Get to know her in our latest In The Spotlight: bit.ly/3WruK0k
Excited to see research uncovering a family of anti-phage lanthipeptides in Actinos. Including systems related to our work on Cvn8 in Streptomyces! Great work of @MDMlab_Paris and @HelenaShomar #Microbiology #PhageDefense #Actinos
🚨Super excited to share our pre-print describing how we used genomics to discover a family of anti-phage lanthipeptides from Actinobacteria 🦠 This marks a significant expansion in the number of bacterial natural products involved in chemical defense. A thread 👇: @MDMlab_Paris
🌟Congrats to our own Dr. Monika on joining @UBCBotany and @ubcforestry as Assistant Professor! 💪 We are incredibly excited for the launch of the Fischer Fire Fungi Lab this fall. Best of luck, @MonikaSFischer! You've made our team proud! 🔥🍄 #TeamSuccess #UBC #FireFungiLab
Thrilled to announce that I will be joining @UBCBotany and @ubcforestry as an Assistant Professor very soon! Stay tuned for updates from the Fischer Fire Fungi Lab, opening this fall in beautiful, fungiful, Vancouver, BC! 🔥🍄🔥
Exploring the world of Sensory Transduction in microorganisms at #GRCSTIM2024 in Ventura, California! 🌐 Here's a snapshot of our brilliant team, soaking in knowledge and forging scientific connections. 🔬 #TeamScience #ResearchCommunity #LabLife #ScienceConference
Super stoked to share this paper, now in its final form @Environmicrobi !! Thanks to the reviewers who helped us improve our story that began with a totally epic time-series of post-fire soil samples and ends with a dynamic and pyrophilous subcommunity! doi.org/10.1111/1462-2…
Not ideal that I'm losing my voice the day I needed to give my talk at #MSAfungi23! But the Fungi and Fire session this morning was awesome! 🍄🍄🔥🔥@sydneyglassman @MonikaSFischer
We are seeking a new faculty member in Soil Carbon Science, more details here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…
@MonikaSFischer showing off some pyrophilous mushrooms #msafungi2024
Enjoying the progress of Mira's amazing work with post-fire microbes @TraxLab! Glad to see you again since our great time at Dubrovnik #SSAMM2022! Love these academic connections ❤️ #ASP2023
Getting ready for the GRC to kick off ! 🥳🥳. So great to spend time with current and former labmates ! @JovanaKaljevic @RemyOphe @LalouxLab @possiblyLuis @s_coelicolor @TraxLab #BacCell23 #TraxLab
Massive CONGRATS to newly minted Dr. @NeemJPatel !!! 🎉🎉🎉 Absolutely phenomenal Phinishing Talk. My heart is bursting 🥹. It’s been such and honor and a privilege to be her postdoc mentor and partner in science! Watch out, cause she’s on fire!!🔥 @TraxLab @PMB_Berkeley
Having a data/file organizing day and realized I never finished my annual tradition of updating this plot of CA wildfires (total acres burned +highlighting specific named fires that burned >100,000acres). 2022 was a phenomenally moist year, with nary a fire >100K!🔥
Student-focused one-day microbiology conference at UC Berkeley next month!!! Open to all! Registration is FREE! ....as a former chair of this event, I'm totally biased in saying this is one of the most awesome micro events ever. Come hang, share your work, met new micro-pals!
We're now about two months(!) out from @UCBerkeley Micro Student Symposium 🥳 Registration closes on March 15th, so make sure to sign up soon (free registration) at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #CalMicro2023
Best papers of 2022 in ecology and evolution, according to members of Mordecai (@morde), Peay (@mykophile), and Fukami labs at @Stanford web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/paper…
My new talk for iBiology will be posted on Nov 15! In the meantime, check out the 2022 Share Your Research trailer youtu.be/uCRTqL4COxc via @YouTube
Thrilled to announce that Matt will be giving his tenure talk at the @PMB_Berkeley seminar this Wednesday @ noon (PT)! Join us in person or on Zoom!
Diversity of genomic adaptations to the post-fire environment in Pezizales fungi points to crosstalk between charcoal tolerance and sexual development @MycoCosm; @MonikaSFischer; @TraxLab; @BHenrissat ow.ly/pQnz50KBh0S
Check out our latest paper all about fire-following Ascomycetes🍄! Stellar comparative genomics led by Andrei Steindorff & Igor Grigoriev @jgi @doescience 🧬6 new fungal genomes 🔥 selection for charcoal-tolerance genes 🍄 fruiting body development nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…
So many rad female fire scientists at #ISME18 !! Fantastic 🔥 pitch from @NeemJPatel, who burned a couple forests using prescribed fire and then followed the soil microbial communities for 18months afterward. Go visit her at poster # 536 to learn how the microbes responded! 🍄🦠