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… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered …

… , both faculty investigators at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new … original cotton project was to try to bring in molecular methods of breeding into cotton,” said Schmutz, who heads … crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is so …

… of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group … and management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and … discussions on how to capture and characterize viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural …

… not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics techniques to … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …