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… event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers … Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern subarctic Pacific … that takes carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during …

… knowledge of viral diversity and virus-host interactions in microbial systems. Through a 2021 DOE Early Career Research … and evolutionary drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil microbial communities. … B.S. in Microbiology, Université …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. …

… and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature … EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s ecosystems, researchers must examine the … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… hear two interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, computational tools, and big data.  …

… invisible to the sampling experiments probing Earth’s ecosystems. Viruses rarely grow well in environmental … because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material … , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along with highlighting the viruses in …

… our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, particularly in freshwater ecosystems. …

… more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost … iPHoP program brings several of these approaches together into the same workflow, then uses a machine-learning model …

JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River … in how general environmental stressors, um, alter microbial biomass and then what the consequences are for the … how the molecules in tiny microbes can impact whole ecosystems. Part of the reason he’s asking this question is …