Karissa assembled this list of ally trainings provided by UCI: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13pu6ZUZ_TbxizDHbit6iTwZHeJKsM3zM/view?usp=sharing
UC Field Research Safety Center of Excellence
Very useful practices for field safety: https://www.ucop.edu/safety-and-loss-prevention/environmental/program-resources/field-research-safety/index.html
Advice for writing research statements for faculty applications
These are recommendations that EEB members developed during our Ecology Group discussion: Statement must make an impact in a short amount of time: Committee members typically have about 5 minutes to spend on each statement during the first round of review (although will spend longer during subsequent rounds). Figures are good, so long as: There […]
Lab policy: Figure formatting
Here are Global Change Biology’s guidelines for figure formatting. I recommend that members of Treseder Lab follow these as closely as possible.
Fungal trait: Denitrification
From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Where O2 is absent or minimal, certain fungi can denitrify nitrate or nitrite, resulting in the production of N2O (Shoun et al. 2012). Denitrification is important because N2O is a particularly effective greenhouse gas, and because […]
Fungal traits: Immobilization of nutrients
From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Nitrogen and P transporters. In order to directly acquire N, P, and other nutrients from the environment, fungi can construct membrane transport proteins (i.e., transporters or permeases) to take up relatively small organic compounds such as […]
Fungal trait: Depolymerization of nitrogen
From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Extracellular chitinase. Chitin is produced within the cell walls of most fungi (Rosenberger 1976) and it is also a primary component of arthropod exoskeletons. It consists of chains of N-acetylglucosamine, and is one of the more […]
Fungal trait: Phosphorus mineralization
From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Extracellular phosphatase. Organic P represents one of the more common sources of P in soil (Barrow 1961, Walker and Syers 1976). In many soil organic P compounds, P is bound to C via an ester linkage […]
Fungal trait: Breakdown of lignin
From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Fungi use extracellular peroxidases to oxidize lignin, ostensibly to obtain access to cellulose, N, and other nutrients that are physically or chemically protected by lignin in plant litter (Tien and Kent Kirk 1983, Martínez et al. […]
Fungal trait: Breakdown of cellulose
From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Cellulose is a major component of plant cell walls, and, accordingly, the most abundant biopolymer on land (Klemm et al. 2005). It is essentially a chain of glucose units that can be used by fungi for […]