Luzia Stalder

@jhcepas.bsky.social on unveiling the rare microbial biosphere: Deep target capture sequencing for taxonomic and functional discovery in plant microbiomes and beyond
#PMS2025

Power of prediction for nodules and nitrogen fixation from @finkel-lab.bsky.social #PMS2025

Very proud to see part of @luzia-stalder.bsky.social inspiring PhD work now published in Microbiome!

We tackled the lack of resolution that affects many plant microbiome studies by designing new barcoding loci from scratch. Our multi-kb amplicons resolve Pseudomonas and fungal strain diversity.

With thanks to Monika Maurhofer and @danielcroll.bsky.social for making this work possible!

High-resolution profiling of bacterial and fungal communities using pangenome-informed taxon-specific long-read amplicons - Microbiome Background High-throughput sequencing technologies have greatly advanced our understanding of microbiomes, but resolving microbial communities at species and strain levels remains challenging. Results...

Still using 16S/ITS profiling? You might want to reconsider👀

Our new paper presents pangenome-informed amplicons that provide up to 10× higher phylogenetic resolution than full-length ribosomal markers- while remaining cost effective and scalable!
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....