The Wrighton Lab

Microbiome Research Group

CSU microbiome network featured at AgInnovation Summit

The CSU Microbiome Network at Colorado State University is digging into the ‘agribiome’. Click here to see the video that was shown at the AgInnovation Summit this year and features members of the network including Kelly Wrigthon. The AgInnovation Summit 2018 held at CSU showcased the cutting edge agricultural research, technology and policy addressing global […]

Congratulations Josue on Best Poster Award at ISME 2018!

Josue Rodriguez Ramos, a second year graduate student in the Wrighton lab won best poster award at ISME 2018 in Leipzig, Germany. His poster, titled “It takes a village: microbial communities support methanogenesis in oxygenated wetland soils”, uncovered the metabolic network supporting a dominant methanogen in  oxygenated wetland soils. He, along with eight others, received this award […]

Wrighton lab at ISME17- click here for details.

Josue Rodriguez Ramos, poster 476A Integrative meta’omics for exploring microbial community structure and function, Session PS20 Thursday August 16th 3:30-5:30pm Garrett Smith, poster 317A Biogeochemical cycling in freshwater systems, Session PS18 Thursday August 16th 3:30-5:30pm Mikayla Borton, poster 564B Subsurface Microbiology, Session PS26 Tuesday August 14th 3:30-5:30pm Bridget McGivern, poster 244B New Metabolism, Session PS12 Tuesday August […]

Dr. Kelly Wrighton receives early career awards from DOE and NSF!

We are honored and incredibly excited to announce that we have received National Science Foundation and Department of Energy Early Career Awards!  Unlocking Microbial Condensed Tannin Resistance Mechanisms: Scaling from Enzymes to Biomes    Genomes to ecosystem function: Targeting critical knowledge gaps in methanogenesis and translation to updated global biogeochemical models

Paper accepted to PNAS!

Mikayla Borton and the shale team composed of collaborators at OSU, WVU, JGI, and EMSL had an article accepted at PNAS:  Mikayla A. Borton, David W. Hoyt, Simon Roux, Rebecca A. Daly, Susan A. Welch, Carrie D. Nicora, Samuel Purvine, Elizabeth K. Eder, Andrea J. Hanson, Julie M. Sheets, David M. Morgan, Richard A. Wolfe, Shikha Sharma, Timothy R. Carr, David R. Cole, Paula J. Mouser, Mary S. Lipton, Michael J. Wilkins, […]