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Enhanced nutrient uptake is sufficient to drive emergent cross-feeding between bacteria in a synthetic community
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High‐resolution phenotyping of sorghum genotypic and phenotypic responses to low nitrogen and synthetic microbial communities
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Identification and recombinant expression of a cutinase from Papiliotrema laurentii that hydrolyzes natural and synthetic polyesters.
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Game On: High School Students Drive Everglades Metagenomics Study
… Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) Biology class at Florida’s Boca Raton Community High School. … out to many researchers with the hope of getting support for a research project for his class of 18 juniors.  He got … and organic carbon concentration. From Field Studies to Publication Together as a class, the students learned about …
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Quantitative DNA Stable Isotope Probing Identifies Active Microorganisms Assimilating Volatile Fatty Acids in Full-Scale Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Processes
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Finding the Fermenters
… the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, researchers recently compiled a list of … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). They also built an … bioproducts. Summary Researchers at the University of California, Davis and UC Santa Barbara generated a list of …
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Inspiring STEM Careers Through a Hands-on Everglades Microbiome Study
… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), embarked on a pilot project with biology students from Boca Raton Community High School in … provides the only known reference microbiome data sets for the Loxahatchee Refuge,  was published in the journal  …
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Open Frameworks Training the Next Generation of Scientists
… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS … , a team of faculty and researchers describe a workforce development program for higher education that develops skills in fungal biology and genomics.  Myco-Ed :  The Mycological Curriculum …
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Len Pennacchio
… methods to address wide-ranging questions existing in biology. He holds joint appointments as a Deputy Director at … his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a rare form of human epilepsy and subsequently generated one of the …
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Advances and challenges in understanding evolution through genome comparison: meeting report of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) lecture course “Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics”
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Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space
… the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We … is a wake-up call to revive the art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes run the … key roles in regulating global nutrient cycles. The information gained from understanding the interactions between …
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A Better Way to Find RNA Virus Needles in the Proverbial Database Haystacks
… in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work … at Tel Aviv University in Israel, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …
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