Went to Mountain "Lake" yesterday for a faculty retreat and I had to get some samples to look for microbes while I was there. Pretty epic mud.

The claim to fame of this lake is that Dirty Dancing was filmed here (when the lake was full). It is one of two natural lakes in Virginia and it has highly unstable water levels.

#virginia #freshwater #microbiology

A genome catalogue of lake bacterial diversity and its drivers at continental scale

nature.com/articles/s41564-023…

#metagenomics #lakes #freshwater #microbiology

A genome catalogue of lake bacterial diversity and its drivers at continental scale - Nature Microbiology

A metagenomic compendium from lakes across Canada reveals bacterial metabolic potential and how it varies depending on land use in different regions.

^Nature

Blooms of #Cyanobacteria pose a significant threat to #freshwater systems including rivers driving both #eutrophication and its dire implications for freshwater species as oxygen availability plummets and also the additional threat posed by #cyanotoxins produced by some Cyanobacteria.

This new research in Scientific Reports takes a #metagenomics and Q-PCR approach to explore the composition of the Cyanobacterial populations and their cyanotoxin production gene in major rivers across the United States (in 2019) and identifies Microcystis as the key toxin producing genus across this study.

Find out more on:

nature.com/articles/s41598-023…

#microbiology #ecology #MicrobialEcology

Microcystis pangenome reveals cryptic diversity within and across morphospecies

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv…

#habs #limnology #freshwater #cyanobacteria