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Pete Chuckran
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Postdoc at UC Berkeley studying soil microbes in order to avoid thinking about his own mortality
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Pete Chuckran @pchuckran.bsky.social · Jan 21
I've used Qiagen kits in the past which allows you to co-isolate DNA on the same spin-column.

RNA kit: www.qiagen.com/us/products/...

DNA co-isolation kit:
www.qiagen.com/us/products/...
RNeasy PowerSoil Total RNA Kit | Soil RNA Isolation | QIAGEN
RNeasy PowerSoil Total RNA Kit is designed for the isolation of high-quality total RNA from all soil types
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Pete Chuckran @pchuckran.bsky.social · Jan 13
Big thanks to @jeffinerca.bsky.social, @sieravirus.bsky.social, and other coauthors!
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Pete Chuckran @pchuckran.bsky.social · Jan 13
Wetting dry soil rapidly stimulates microbial activity and has important consequences for biogeochemical cycling. In our paper out today, we show that part of that response can be explained by how bacterial genomes are written (i.e. codon usage, nucleotide freq., genome size)
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