A highly collaborative Discovery project combines two techniques BONCAT+FACS, (Bioorthogonal Non-Canonical Amino Acid Tagging, and Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorting), to detect individual active microbes in soil from our Oak Ridge Field Research Site in Tennessee. To find out more https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/06/24/new-microbial-research-technique/
Couradeau E.; J. Sasse, D. Goudeau, N. Nath, R. Chakraborty, T.C. Hazen, B.. Bowen, R.R. Malmstrom, T.R. Northen (2019) Challenging our view of the active fraction of soil microbiomes using BONCAT-FACS-Seq. Nature Communication. [doi]:1038/s41467-019-10542-0