Sydney I. Glassman

This study shows that low burn intensity increases N2O emissions through denitrification, while high burn intensity reduces emissions due to microbial loss and resource limitation.

This study investigates how wildfires affect ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA) abundance and denitrifier activity, leading to increased soil emissions of nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) in California chaparral.

This study examines how wildfires alter soil microbial interactions in drylands, revealing increased bacterial-fungal associations and keystone taxa that drive post-fire succession.

This study shows wildfires increase soil nitric oxide emissions and create heterogeneous nitrous oxide emissions in chaparral, with high emissions linked to burn severity.

The paper examines microbial community resistance and resilience in the Mojave Desert after the Dome Fire, finding microbial biomass and richness remained largely unchanged despite significant plant mortality.

This study identifies genomic strategies and trait trade-offs in pyrophilous fungi that enable survival and nutrient cycling post-fire, revealing gene duplication, horizontal gene transfer, and sexual recombination as key evolutionary mechanisms.

This study investigates genomic adaptations in pyrophilous bacteria after wildfires, finding gene fragmentation, horizontal gene transfer, and plasmid-mediated operon expansion enhance their ability to degrade PyOM and acquire nutrients.

The paper examines how wildfire alters soil microbial functional potential for PyOM degradation and nitrogen cycling over time using metagenomic analysis of burned and unburned soils.

The study examines AMF communities in Eastern Joshua trees across seasons and tissues, finding consistent mycobiomes in soils and roots, with summer showing lower diversity.

This study assesses the resilience of soil and extracted DNA samples to freezer failures and long-term storage, finding fungal communities more resilient than bacteria and -80°C storage more effective than -20°C for DNA.

This study evaluates optimal soil storage and media methods for isolating pyrophilous bacteria and fungi from burned soil, finding that -80°C storage without glycerol preserves species diversity and that PyOM-based media enhances culturing of fastidious microbes.