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… team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of … kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses … only 11 times more abundant than its host. There just don’t seem to be huge lytic infections happening in this mat. The …

… first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, which is part of a larger consortium Ul-Hasan has started, known as the Initiative for …

… that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, Secondary Metabolites, …

… of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and … multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics and phylogenomics) and machine learning to … user community and supports various user projects in the Microbial Program. In an LDRD-funded project, Dr. Schulz …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains … rate of 0.9 grams per Liter-hour in a system optimized for developing small-scale prototypes. Additionally, the team … produce the small molecules glycerol and itaconic acid to see how the cell-free system allowed them to increase the …

… . Assaf Vardi , Weizmann Institute of Science One cell can change large-scale processes Keynote Talk Title: … the virus that infects it,  Emiliania huxleyi virus , to see what those infection dynamics mean for these vast algal … in computational analysis to identify and characterize TEs, developing software to annotate them in plants other than …

… used CRAGE to engineer domesticated bacterial strains with novel biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). BGCs make diverse … their former genetic repression, enabling scientists to see what molecules they produce. For more on this feat, see … engineer  Pseudomonas simiae  with fluorescent markers to visualize the bacterium colonizing plant roots — a …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as … rate of 0.9 grams per Liter-hour in a system optimized for developing small-scale prototypes. Additionally, the team … produce the small molecules glycerol and itaconic acid to see how the cell-free system allowed them to increase the …

… In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called … with each other, without all the noise or other biological activity of the surrounding neighborhood,” said Benjamin … and the mycorrhizal fungi  Rhizophagus irregularis. To see how these organisms cooperate, this team applied  R. …