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… will take place November 18-19, 2026 on the UC Berkeley campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this … together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral …

… of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions … Genomics, and Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science calls. These documents have been shared with … insights in lignin biosynthetic pathway edited populus …

… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … couple of years, and realized it was a sulfur-oxidizing prokaryote. Silvina Gonzalez-Rizzo, an associate professor … explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have never been studied …

… peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches … to apply the latest molecular techniques to learn more about the microbial communities in the Arthur R. Marshall … reached  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh , who heads the  Metagenome Program . “After discussing the project with him, I was …

… The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins … cells or hosts. This ability isn’t enough to make them super viruses, though, said Roux. There’s a gauntlet of …

… maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software includes: gRNA-SeqRET , …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two … colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …