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… PPE or Personal Protective Equipment is worn to minimize exposure to … PPE requirements when actively working include safety glasses, lab coats, gloves, long pants that cover ankles, and shoes that fully enclose the entire foot. Over the last few months, we found an increasing number of colleagues …

… The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. The JGI is eager to work … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … the fungi side, underground mycorrhizal networks can serve as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate … (JBEI). Cole led the work in collaboration with JBEI as part of the 2021 Laboratory Directed Research and …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of … The bacterial endosymbiont, Burkholderia , is recognized as a mutualist, where both species of organism benefit from association, but was predicted to have evolved from a … This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the …

… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal … in the types of microorganisms that inhabit these sites, as well as the way in which those microorganisms break down … This work was funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data … However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, … of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was also supported the grant #2016/23218-0 from São Paulo …

… developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. The … interacts with cell signaling networks that control many basic cellular functions. It plays an important role in … developed the first chemiluminescent biosensors for measuring cyclic di-GMP in bacteria through work enabled by …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more … in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offers more ways for scientists to explore the balance … This work was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these … to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program generated many new high-confidence …

… P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent … take in more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – … burst. This action triggers subsurface carbon cycling, releasing fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs … elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The … This work was supported by the Plant-Microbe Interfaces program at the …