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… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling … happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a fully enclosed, …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as … its intimate associations with endophytes — a group whose effects on plants are still not well understood — scientists …

… associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how … barcode-based genetics (RB-TnSeq), and computational genomics to better understand the plant-associated …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are … of regulon identification by in vitro transcription-sequencing (RIViT-seq) to facilitate the characterization of … sequencing, they were able to identify the target genes of 11 sigma factors in Streptomyces coelicolor . The Impact As …

… at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, he directs a multidisciplinary team responsible for piloting and operationalizing new genomic … training in bioinformatics, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab … Golden, Natalie A. Cookson, and Jeff Hasty. "A microfluidic platform for long-term monitoring of algae in a dynamic …

… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing technologies and computational tools have … store their genetic information in RNA without a DNA stage. “I would argue RNA viruses globally are even less …