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… fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … The team then compared this dataset against nearly 80 previously published fungal genomes on the JGI data portal …

… enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …

… developments to meet the ever-changing demands of our users. … Download plant, algal, fungal and microbial genomes … tools for comparative genomics of fungi. Mycocosm enables users to navigate across sequenced fungal genomes, and to … generated by the JGI and by others. The web portal allows users to navigate these genomes and conduct comparative and …

Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of biosynthetic gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he … "Natural Prodcast" podcast, a "fireside chat"-style podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of …

… combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those … paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is … and other industries — yet there’s still so much about them we don’t know.  Unlocking the power of secondary …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … is estimated to be larger than any other single plant genus. Peatlands accumulate partially decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high …

… which microbes are present in a sample, to generate data about which organisms are active, and which microbes are … microbial ecosystems. These communities harbor tens of thousands of different organisms who all consume different … nice because people were given structure, but it was all about sharing ideas. All breakout sessions, just enough …

… have influenced their careers in science. Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, … Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors Elle Barnes and Susannah Tringe Shari Larsen and mentor Robert M. Bowers … they’re doing their internship, it really made me think about should I, do I really wanna do a PhD in the future? …