Steven J. Blazewicz

The paper shows reduced precipitation increases microbial uptake and processing of rhizodeposit carbon near roots in grasslands, altering carbon cycling without plant stress.

This study uses SIP-viromics to distinguish newly produced from persistent virions in soil, revealing that most virions persist without replication, linked to dominant bacterial groups.

This study examines how soil microbial gene transcription changes during a feast-famine event, showing shifts in metabolic and regulatory pathways over time.

This study compares microbial community responses to exudates and soil organic matter degradation in shrub and sedge rhizosphere soils using stable isotope probing.

This study tracks viral succession and infection dynamics in soil viral communities after rewetting and phosphorus amendment, showing distinct responses in virion and transcriptionally active viral populations.

This study shows that reduced winter precipitation lowers microbial growth efficiency and shifts soil organic carbon composition in a California grassland.

This study examines how drought affects the formation and persistence of mineral-associated organic matter in grassland soil, finding reduced formation but enhanced persistence of detrital-derived MAOM.

The paper introduces SIPdb, a database and analysis tool for linking microbial amplicon sequences to metabolic activity using SIP data, showing it recovers 70.1% of reported incorporators and validates known degraders.

This study examines soil viral communities in Mediterranean grasslands, finding that spatial factors dominate over temporal variation in shaping viral community structure.

The paper quantifies glycolate metabolism by marine bacteria and shows cross-feeding enhances carbon transfer efficiency.

The paper measures microbial growth rates in soil habitats to test if specialists grow faster than generalists, finding specialists do, with fungal responses differing due to life-history strategies.

This study shows phosphate amendment alters RNA virus community composition in soil after rewetting, with 60% of responding viruses belonging to unknown clades and significant impacts on bacterial populations.

The paper links genomic traits like codon bias and genome size to bacterial growth and transcription rates in rewetted soil using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data.

The paper investigates how microbial activity in grassland soils varies with depth and water availability, identifying active predatory bacteria and episymbionts in different soil layers.

This study examines how soil redox conditions influence viral communities and virus-host interactions in tropical rainforest soils, revealing distinct viral populations and their roles in carbon degradation.