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… techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those … cycling and inter-organismal interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy …

… the program supports foundational research related to soil nutrient cycling and health, terrestrial biogeochemical … processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome interactions. The  insights derived are crucial for advancing the bioeconomy, …

… by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … and phytoplankton capture atmospheric carbon, helping to regulate Earth's carbon balance, to exploring the genetic … communities affect plant growth and productivity. These insights have the potential to inform strategies that …

… advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work … that govern ecosystem processes. This research provides insights into microbial diversity and metabolic potential, … communities contribute to critical processes such as carbon cycling, nutrient cycling, and energy flow. One of …

Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect … of viral infection cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions. …

… as a way that bacteria can talk to each other and then up-regulate or trigger some of these cryptic clusters or these … or online catalog, I guess. So we've also been able to get soils from Purdue campus itself and been able to actually … fun that we've started that is a different subject is from microbes to medicine labs. So this is-- we've been working …

… compounds, Alison. They are – if you can imagine – two carbons in a triple bond attached to two carbons in a double bond attached to two carbons in a triple … natural product – they also often surprise us by giving us insights, inspires us to discover the fundamentals and then …

… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use … that may impact microbiome structure and biogeochemical cycles. Research Team    … A complete publication list … mSystems. 5 (3) Schulz et al. (2018) Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Communications. 9 (1), 1-9 Schulz …

… … Adaptive strategies in a cosmopolitan and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of plant-fungal …

… that enable fungi and algae to play a vital role in carbon cycling, biodegradation and biogeochemistry. This … play a critical role in ecological processes such as carbon cycling, biodegradation and biogeochemistry. The … that have direct applications in bioenergy production, carbon management, and environmental sustainability. Fungi, …

… cluster the products of the biosynthetic gene cluster is regulated. DAN: By the quorum sensing system. Yeah. AARON … could imagine if you have two colonies of bacteria in the soil or something and they’re competing with each other, if … ecology community to be able to better predict how their microbes are interacting with each other from sequence …

NIGEL MOUNCEY: Yeah. And the ag industry is highly regulated and that drives a lot of the timeline.  DAN: Yeah, … But they really span our core science programs which are microbes, and fungi, and algae plants, synthetic biology. …