Samuel E. Barnett

Biotic versus environmental controls on microbial degradation of permafrost organic matter

This study investigates how biotic and environmental factors influence microbial degradation of permafrost organic matter using an in situ thaw experiment.

Disturbance increases soil microbiome functional redundancy but decreases capacity for insurance via winnowed environmental responsiveness

The paper examines how disturbance affects soil microbiome functional redundancy and insurance potential using metagenome sequencing from heated and reference sites.

Soil viral community dynamics over seven years of heat disturbance: spatial variation exceeds temporal in annually sampled soils

The paper examines soil viral community dynamics over seven years in heated and unheated soils, finding greater spatial variation than temporal changes in viral communities.

Simulating metagenomic stable isotope probing datasets with MetaSIPSim

The paper introduces MetaSIPSim, a tool to simulate metagenomic-SIP datasets, demonstrating its advantages over conventional metagenomic sequencing in genome assembly and binning.

HTSSIP: an R package for analysis of high throughput sequencing data from nucleic acid stable isotope probing (SIP) experiments

The paper introduces HTSSIP, an R package for analyzing HTS-SIP data, addressing the lack of accessible and well-documented tools for this task.