Eric R Hester

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Welcome to my website!

I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Microbiology at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

My research interests broadly include bacterial and viral community ecology and developing predictive models that link microbial processes to system level functions

New papaer on greenhouse gases from the rhizosphere

January 30th, 2018

Our new paper connecting the dots between rhizosphere dwelling bacteria and their metabolic output has been published at mSystems. We constructed a nicely linked dataset of microbial data (16S rRNA and metagenomes), greenhouse gas fluxes, nitrogen load (and many other environmental conditions that were measured). We found that higher nitrogen loads increase greenhouse gas emissions from the rhizoshpere and that these increased emissions were linked to several key microbes living in the soil.

Find out about it here: 10.1128/mSystems.00214-17

Last updated: March 5th, 2018