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… current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my first publication and it feels so … a quest to better understand the factors and mechanics of gene expression in over 400 fungi species. “Fungi are the …

Hey everyone. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the series of interviews we recorded at the Society … could have arisen from. DAN UDWARY: OK, so sort of a phylogenetic reconstruction kind of a thing. ALISON NARAYAN: … AU.  2023.   doi: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00263 “Deciphering the evolution of flavin-dependent monooxygenase …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could mutate the …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet … plant genome sequences also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the …

… to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the … on large-scale sequencing efforts that survey the vast phylogenetic and ecological diversity of fungi and algae, … members of microbial communities, cataloging gene markers, and producing environmental genomes to support …

Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is to: train students … species.  Students collect fungi, sterilize tissue, isolate genes and more. The metadata then goes into iNaturalist. …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many … but also the ability to understand the complicated evolutionary history of strawberry in such detail is …