Congrats to current PhD students Andrew St James and Egidio Tentori on recent journal articles

St. James, Andrew R., Joseph B. Yavitt, Stephen H. Zinder, and Ruth E. Richardson. 2020. Linking Microbial Sphagnum Degradation and Acetate Mineralization in Acidic Peat Bogs: From Global Insights to a Genome-Centric Case Study. ISME Journal,  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00782-0. Tentori, Egidio F., and Ruth E. Richardson. 2020. Methane Monooxygenase Transcripts as Quantitative Biomarkers of Methanotrophic Activity in […]

New Richardson lab group paper published and highlighted in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

New article from our lab (and our first in the area of low-resource-appropriate biological water quality monitoring): Evaluating Human Sensory Perceptions and the Compartment Bag Test Assays as Proxies for the Presence and Concentration of Escherichia coli in Drinking Water in Western Kenya Authors: Yolanda M. Brooks, Shalean M. Collins, Patrick Mbullo, Godfred O. Boateng, Sera L. Young andRuth E. Richardson Publisher: The American […]

Oil-hyperaccumulating marine algae characterization paper now Published in PlosONE

Use of De Novo Transcriptome Libraries to Characterize a Novel Oleaginous Marine Chlorella Species during the Accumulation of Triacylglycerols Cresten B. Mansfeldt, Lubna V. Richter, Beth A. Ahner, William P. Cochlan, Ruth E. Richardson doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147527 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26840425 Thanks to the DOE’s Algal Biofuels Consortium program for funding this work.