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Trent R. Northen is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work focuses on several specialized subfields, including plant science, molecular biology, ecology, geophysics, and biomedical engineering.

The research topics covered by Trent R. Northen include seismic waves and analysis, microbial community ecology and physiology, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, gut microbiota and health, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

Northen has authored numerous papers published in a variety of scientific venues. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • The ISME Journal

Some recent publications from Northen include:

  • Untangling the sequence of events during the S 2 → S 3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The core metabolome and root exudation dynamics of three phylogenetically distinct plant species, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Decrypting bacterial polyphenol metabolism in an anoxic wetland soil, 2021, Nature Communications

Trent R. Northen has worked collaboratively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Xavier Mayali
  • Ty Samo
  • Cullen Buie
  • Peter Weber
  • Christopher Ward

Best Publications

  • Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking

    Mingxun Wang;Jeremy J Carver;Vanessa V Phelan;Laura M Sanchez

  • Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly.

    Kateryna Zhalnina;Katherine B Louie;Zhao Hao;Nasim Mansoori

  • Feed Your Friends: Do Plant Exudates Shape the Root Microbiome?

    Joelle Sasse;Enrico Martinoia;Trent Northen;Trent Northen

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Gut microbiota mediate caffeine detoxification in the primary insect pest of coffee

    Javier A. Ceja-Navarro;Fernando E. Vega;Ulas Karaoz;Zhao Hao

  • Clathrate nanostructures for mass spectrometry

    Trent R. Northen;Oscar Yanes;Michael T. Northen;Dena Marrinucci

  • Deciphering microbial interactions in synthetic human gut microbiome communities

    Ophelia S Venturelli;Alex V Carr;Garth Fisher;Ryan H Hsu

  • Widespread adenine N6-methylation of active genes in fungi

    Stephen J Mondo;Richard O Dannebaum;Rita C Kuo;Katherine B Louie

  • Cyanobacteria as Biocatalysts for Carbonate Mineralization

    Nina A. Kamennaya;Caroline M. Ajo-Franklin;Trent Northen;Christer Jansson

  • Identification of Metabolic Signatures Linked to Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii

    Sylvie Miquel;Sylvie Miquel;Marion Leclerc;Marion Leclerc;Rebeca Martin;Rebeca Martin;Florian Chain;Florian Chain

  • Learning representations of microbe–metabolite interactions

    James T. Morton;Alexander A. Aksenov;Alexander A. Aksenov;Louis Felix Nothias;Louis Felix Nothias;James R. Foulds

  • Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust

    Lara Rajeev;Ulisses Nunes da Rocha;Niels Klitgord;Eric G Luning

  • Calcifying cyanobacteria—the potential of biomineralization for carbon capture and storage

    Christer G Jansson;Trent Northen

  • Dealing with the unknown: metabolomics and metabolite atlases.

    Benjamin P. Bowen;Trent R. Northen

  • Multiple Ionization Mass Spectrometry Strategy Used To Reveal the Complexity of Metabolomics

    Anders Nordström;Elizabeth Want;Trent Northen;Janne Lehtiö

  • Untangling the sequence of events during the S2 → S3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism

    Mohamed Ibrahim;Thomas Fransson;Ruchira Chatterjee;Mun Hon Cheah

  • Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria.

    Richard Baran;Eoin L. Brodie;Eoin L. Brodie;Jazmine Mayberry-Lewis;Jazmine Mayberry-Lewis;Eric Hummel

  • Bacteria increase arid-land soil surface temperature through the production of sunscreens

    Estelle Couradeau;Ulas Karaoz;Hsiao Chien Lim;Ulisses Nunes da Rocha

  • Mediterranean grassland soil C-N compound turnover is dependent on rainfall and depth, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms.

    Spencer Diamond;Peter F Andeer;Zhou Li;Alexander Crits-Christoph

  • Untargeted soil metabolomics methods for analysis of extractable organic matter

    Tami L. Swenson;Stefan Jenkins;Benjamin P. Bowen;Trent R. Northen

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Adams
Paul D. Adams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Anup K. Singh
Anup K. Singh Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Blake A. Simmons
Blake A. Simmons Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ferran Garcia-Pichel
Ferran Garcia-Pichel Arizona State University
John P. Vogel
John P. Vogel University of California, Berkeley
Gary Siuzdak
Gary Siuzdak Scripps Research Institute
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Brian G. Fox
Brian G. Fox University of Wisconsin–Madison
Axel Visel
Axel Visel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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