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… first sampled the area in summer 2016. She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto … a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little about where to …
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… user community and supports various user projects in the Microbial Program. In an LDRD-funded project, Dr. Schulz … protists. These approaches enable novel insights into the diversity and important ecological roles of microeukaryotes in terrestrial ecosystems. Additionally, Dr. Schulz is leading a …
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… the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program since 2011. Prior … 2021. A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 8674:00585-7. Nayfach S et al. …
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… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic … about virus-infected microbial cells that are transformed into virocells, and how the outcomes of these infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive the energy and nutrient …
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… research; the vast majority of projects fall into this category. Users are responsible for their own … protists, bacteria, archaea, viruses, plants, including microbial communities and plant-microbe interactions. …
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… of bioinformatics tools for extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … are often less diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage … hot springs, including Dewar Creek. Continuing explorations into this unique environment, researchers from the …
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… advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model laboratory ecosystems (EcoFABs). … microbiome science through standardized fabricated ecosystems. Nature Methods (16), 567–571 (2019) doi: …
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… and management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and … has changed our understanding of the microbiome and the microbial sciences field. Roux will be recognized at the … viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic …
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… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are … a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …
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… cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on … cells, the first member of the Archaea isolated from Deep Lake, the coldest place on Earth known to support life, …
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… strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing … collected using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) into smaller, less diverse pools before being subjected to … of HCR-FISH+FACS for selectively enriching low abundance microbial groups from complex natural communities. This type …
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