New paper on mobile gene clusters in Sinorhizobium

It is bittersweet that after many years of hard work, this collaborative paper (truly a co-lead situation) finally came out in PNAS right after we lost our friend, colleague, and collaborator Amy. This paper was such a labor of love, and we’re deeply thankful to have had the pleasure of working and writing with this amazing human. Love you, babe.

Katy (left) and Amy (right), with photobomb by our grad student Alex Riley

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2411831122

We looked for genetically-variable sets of genes (modules) in plants and rhizobia that were correlated with each other and plant growth.