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Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential … of Energy (DOE). By better understanding how poplar responds to its intimate associations with endophytes — a … communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology helps scientists …

… of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle … affect their prey in different ways. They have the capacity to kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they lyse … then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 hosts they found, how prevalent in the mat are their viruses? The abundance of …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria … land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how plant materials can be broken down for things like … it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing … between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are …

… bacterial group in the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he … genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. After joining the JGI, he formed the … that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the Stable Isotope Probing …

See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, and Facilities Integrating …

… environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to … the small molecules glycerol and itaconic acid to see how the cell-free system allowed them to increase the … in the absence of cell walls. If we can continue to learn how to focus the carbon flux, we can avoid transport …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or … are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the … host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for …

… has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging questions existing in biology. He holds joint appointments as a Deputy Director at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, Senior Scientist at … regulatory sequences in the human genome. Understanding how variation in regulatory sequences influences human …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel … physiologically and enzymatically, with descriptions of how their activities influence biochemical reactions. For … These specialized compounds enable organisms to respond to environmental stresses or mediate interactions …

… boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its … but they’re not always immediately apparent. Similarly, the microbes found in plant roots may have unknown roles. Some … Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) studied how fungi associate with roots in A. thaliana plants. The …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base … without a defined nucleus). Colder waters nearer the poles, however, tend to favor eukaryotes ( microorganisms with a …