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… microbial populations in other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when sunlight becomes scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria … observations regarding the contributions of algae and viruses to the ecosystem were noted, but require further …

… bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. … Nature Comm 10(1) 1-10 Schulz, F. et al. 2018. Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Comm . 9 (1), 4881 … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

… core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … data from over 1.3 million publicly available bacterial and archaeal genome and contig sources.  The Impact Secondary …

… novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring … a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. The work was led … genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. …