Zahavah "Havi" Rojer
@zrojer.bsky.social
Cornell Microbiology PhD Student | Hendry Lab | bacteria, insects, and plants | they/them
https://zrojer.github.io/
https://zrojer.github.io/
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New and MUCH improved - we've updated our work on Lake Ontario's microbial communities by linking in physical processes (upwellings propagated via Kelvin waves). Nearshore zones hold microbes and metabolisms EXCLUSIVE to the temporary upwelling niche!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Upwelling periodically disturbs the ecological assembly of microbial communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes
The Laurentian Great Lakes hold 21% of the world's surface freshwater and supply drinking water to nearly 40 million people. Here we provide the first evidence that wind-driven upwelling fundamentally...
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July 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New and MUCH improved - we've updated our work on Lake Ontario's microbial communities by linking in physical processes (upwellings propagated via Kelvin waves). Nearshore zones hold microbes and metabolisms EXCLUSIVE to the temporary upwelling niche!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Zahavah "Havi" Rojer
Microbial ecologists! Do you use Unifrac distances? Are you curious about absolute abundances? Then I’ve got a paper for you!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/4)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/4)
Interpreting UniFrac with Absolute Abundance: A Conceptual and Practical Guide
Microbial ecologists routinely use β-diversity metrics to compare communities, yet these metrics vary in the ecological dimensions they capture. Popular for incorporating phylogenetic relationships, U...
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July 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Microbial ecologists! Do you use Unifrac distances? Are you curious about absolute abundances? Then I’ve got a paper for you!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/4)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/4)
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Higher methanotroph abundance and bottom-water methane in ponds with floating photovoltaic arrays https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666521v1
July 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Higher methanotroph abundance and bottom-water methane in ponds with floating photovoltaic arrays https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666521v1
Reposted by Zahavah "Havi" Rojer
Latest work from the lab - we identify a translation factor, YebC2, that reduces ribosome stalling in B. subtilis!
Congrats to co-first authors: grad students Hye-Rim Hong & Cassidy Prince & undergrad Dennis Wu @denniswu02.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Congrats to co-first authors: grad students Hye-Rim Hong & Cassidy Prince & undergrad Dennis Wu @denniswu02.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
YebC2 resolves ribosome stalling and increases fitness of cells lacking EF-P and the ABCF ATPase YfmR
Author summary Polyproline motifs are essential structural features of many proteins but are difficult for the ribosome to synthesize. EF-P reduces ribosome pausing at polyproline motifs. Here, we sho...
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April 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Latest work from the lab - we identify a translation factor, YebC2, that reduces ribosome stalling in B. subtilis!
Congrats to co-first authors: grad students Hye-Rim Hong & Cassidy Prince & undergrad Dennis Wu @denniswu02.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Congrats to co-first authors: grad students Hye-Rim Hong & Cassidy Prince & undergrad Dennis Wu @denniswu02.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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Thanks for inviting me @markowenmartin.bsky.social !!
First podcast recording of the day. Guest is Dr. Tory Hendry of Cornell University, chatting about interactions between fluorescent Pseudomonas and aphids!
May 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Thanks for inviting me @markowenmartin.bsky.social !!