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… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The … Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene … Martin that contributed toward filling gaps on the fungal Tree of Life through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. …

… metabolites. So knowing, OK, which metabolites are actually associated with these gene clusters, or to activity? So if … IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial … of a plant, so the bacteria living on and inside the roots are protecting the plants against pathogens. So …

… parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and … is to complement diversity surveys ( Who is there? ) with activity measurements ( Who is active when/where, and how? … invaluable information on virus diversity and activity in microbial communities, however they can only provide a …

… matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the … the fungus decreased the expression of poplar genes associated with plant defense (e.g. jasmonic acid and …

… than 7 decades. So, this family of substances is always associated with toxicity, basically, killing cells. ALISON: … genomic revolution, to me, as a natural part chemist for microbial natural product, is that I love microbial natural … taxol, for example. If you say isolate compound from the trees – if you’re cutting the trees, it takes years to …

… bacterium that they’re interested in, usually some sort of activity screens to try to find some bioactivity that they … of the IMG data portal , which is a larger portal for microbial genomics. IMG stands for Integrated Microbial … archaeal genomes that were created – these are Metagenome Associated Genomes, or MAGs. So these are genomes that were …

… right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so … But where taxol comes from is, from the bark of the yew tree, is where it was originally discovered. And so that … right? It turns out, it takes the bark from three yew trees in order to make enough or to isolate enough taxol to …

… from the University of Michigan. Dr. Narayan is currently associated with the chemistry department as well as the life … around enzymes from thermophilic organisms where their peak activity is at an elevated temperature. Right? We don’t necessarily see that the activity of our enzymes is better at higher temperatures, …

… that maps gene expression patterns in the  Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously … models,” he said. Cole annotated cell types in the plant root atlas, and noted that the approach he developed for …

… A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 184(13):3376-3393 Almeida A, et … Duerkop BA, et al. (2018) Murine colitis reveals a disease-associated bacteriophage community.  Nat Microbiol. … of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life.  Nature Biotechnology  35(7):676-683 Schulz …

… biofuels by studying perennial grasses and fast-growing trees as renewable energy feedstocks. It also tackles … development of complex biomolecules — which can include antimicrobial and anti-pest compounds.  The program is working … interactions, focusing on how environmental stress and microbial communities affect plant growth and productivity. …

… figure out that there are metabolites that will rely their activity in the physical, chemical features of the compound. … of a particular part of the Streptomyces phylogenomic tree, then you will be in a position to say, this group of … we have a database that we sorted out on a phylogenomic tree, such that we can really say what Dan was saying: …