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Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in hard-to-reach places that …

… recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … genomes directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He … and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of  Schizophyllum commune . Nat Biotech.  2010; 28: …

But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may …