Swetha Sridhar
cysteinechapel.bsky.social
Swetha Sridhar
@cysteinechapel.bsky.social
Graduate student at SSPB, Rice University. Microbe-mineral interactions | Biosensing | Bioenrichment. It's all about the 'crobes! Sapere aude.
Reposted by Swetha Sridhar
Reposted by Swetha Sridhar
We developed an RNA enzyme that adds barcodes to 16S rRNA to track bacterial DNA exchange in wastewater, identifying plasmid hosts via sequencing. This surpasses fluorescence methods by enabling multi-sample/plasmid analysis. Paper: go.nature.com/440gL5E. More technical details: shorturl.at/Y4KnA
Information storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding - Nature Biotechnology
Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.
go.nature.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Reposted by Swetha Sridhar
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events
We’re out in Nature !! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting for my first bluesky post! – it’s been a long haul by an excellent team from across Europe, led by @frantecol.bsky.social
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:29 PM