Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
climate gases from SAR11
The story behind our paper: Sun et al., "The abundant marine bacterium
Pelagibacter simultaneously catabolizes
dimethylsulfoniopropionate to the gases
dimethyl sulfide and methanethiol" DOI:10.1038/NMICROBIOL.2016.65)
Persister formation in Staphylococcus aureus is associated with ATP-depletion
The story on linking energy to antibiotic susceptibility
From metagenomics of hot springs to bioinformatics software development
The motivation behind developing a new tool for taxonomic classification of metagenomic high-throughput sequencing data.
Seeing the Tree in a forest of microbial diversity
Access to a wealth of environments and the ability to reconstruct genomes for previously unknown and uncultured lineages has lead to a huge expansion in our understanding of the diversity of life on earth. We wanted to explore that diversity with a Tree of Life for the genomic era.