Robin A. Herbert
robinherbert.bsky.social
Robin A. Herbert
@robinherbert.bsky.social
PhD student in plant and microbiology 🌿🔬 Lover of interesting endophytes 🌾 Barcoding bacteria to see how they colonize roots
More exciting news! I'm finishing my PhD in plant biology from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social this December and am looking for #postdoc positions starting in early 2026!
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Very excited to share a big part of my dissertation work with the Deutschbauer lab at LBNL and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! BarTn7: A method for bacterial lineage tracking at sub-species resolution in population, ecological, and evolutionary experiments.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
BarTn7: Optimizing Bacterial Lineage Tracking at Sub-Species Resolution for Population Dynamics in Ecological and Evolutionary Studies
Communities of bacteria undergo population bottlenecks which are crucial to their population, ecological, and evolutionary dynamics. However, conventional amplicon sequencing cannot distinguish such d...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM