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… Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 large-scale proposals have been accepted from 70 full … interested in better characterizing the role endosymbiotic bacteria play on mating habits of Mucoromycota fungi, and … have beneficial symbiotic relationships with plants and bacteria; in many instances, fungal physiology is impacted …

… impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light on hidden components, … three domains of life.  Using the IMG suite, JGI retrieved 142 of the GH75 AMGs, which encode enzymes that break down … distinct from similar proteins found in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain similarities with bacterial counterparts …

… Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since …

… on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse … 2022 – present Alumni Award, MCS, University of Florida, 2024 Congressional Recognition, Women’s Services Honoree, 2022 … Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence, 2015 34th Annual Women’s Recognition Award for Science, 2020 NIH …

… use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are … in 3,609 (6 percent) of the 56,868 microbial genomes and 2,249 of the 6,412 (35 percent) metagenomes mined for this …

… first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a symbiont of the green … populations in oxygen minimum zones identified SAR11 bacteria as initiators of nitrogen loss in these waters. The … of the tree of life. Used in tandem over the years, metagenomics and single cell genomics have afforded JGI users …

… awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! … techniques including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , … the University of California, Merced. Woyke received a 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific …

… called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, … the phenotypic records of 8,350 organisms along with 4,355 genomes and 13.6 million genes. The results reveal … also used the tool to predict possible functions from 733 metagenome-assembled rumen genomes. Finally, they used the …