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… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. … able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how …

… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining … ( magna cum laude ) PhD, Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography …

… In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia … plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … Energy operated under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This project received funding from the European Research Council …

… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities … The Impact Altiarchaea are abundant and dominant populations in oxygen-poor environments without oxygen deep below …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach that …

… other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria … special skills to break down pollutants and recycle carbon. They were part of an ancient lineage of bacteria to … was done under Contract DE-AC52-07NA2734. Funding for this project was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in … University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach that …