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… diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity.  In … selected by the DOE Office of Science as part of the Early Career Research Program (ECRP). His project, “Characterizing … Alterations of Microbial Metabolism in Model Soil Ecosystems,” uses a combination of experimental approaches and …

… in water, makes up the overwhelming majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is tough … National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants …

… difficult, if not impossible, without such a serendipitous partnership. The class decided to do an environmental … (metabolizing) methane within the Florida Everglades ecosystem. There are no roads or real human traffic through this … from the enormous data set on the IMG portal. The class discovered Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Proteobacteria to …

… became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for community sequencing projects and heads R&D … Kuftin AN, et al. Mass Spectrometry for Natural Product Discovery. 2020.  Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular … in rhizosphere microbial community assembly. Nat Microbiol. 2018;3: 470–480. 7. Louie KB, Bowen BP, McAlhany S, Huang Y, …

… the energy to make complex compounds called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic … powerful: they can whip up dozens of complex natural products, including new ones. The Impact In the past, natural products have been an important source of antibiotics. Indeed, …

… strategy for stable isotope probing metagenomics. mSystems 8:e01280-22. Volland et al. 2022.   A centimeter-long … active, membrane-bound organelles. Science  376,1453-1458 Nuccio et al 2022 . HT-SIP: a semi-automated stable isotope … BONCAT-FACS.  Nature Comm 10(1) 1-10 Schulz, F. et al. 2018. Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Comm . …

… evolution and rapid changes in both genome content and structure following a genome duplication event that occured … (Berkeley Lab) took on the Open Green Genome Initiative in 2018 as part of its Community Science Program. The OGG has … the way for C-fern to expand its role as a key plant system for teaching next-generation plant biology. … The work …

Olpidium are obligate endoparasites of some common crops, such as lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause … pressure on retaining the flagellum in the terrestrial ecosystems. Unfortunately, neither paper was able to resolve the … of rapid development of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data …