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I'm excited to share my first postdoc manuscript (and first-ever preprint!) from Dianne Newman’s lab @caltech. This was a wonderful collaboration with Linda Thomashow and David Weller @USDA_ARS. tinyurl.com/ydynmqhq.
#microbialecology #plantmicrobe #genomics
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Metabolite-mediated interactions shape microbial communities and can inhibit pathogen invasion. We focused on the ecology of phenazines, a family of bacterially produced redox-active antibiotics that can protect major crops from disease-causing microbes.
Phenazines are chemically diverse but are all derived from the same precursors, which are synthesized by conserved genes. We leveraged this knowledge to find which bacteria can make phenazines and to measure their abundance in the environment. 
