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… nature does this with such elegance And also to take advantage of the biological properties that these molecules have … to test that hypothesis through site-directed mutagenesis, we would end up with dead enzymes. So often, when … So we’ll run things in like little Eppendorf tubes, or in 96, or 384 well plates. But then the fun really starts when …

… with postdoctoral fellow Ben Cole on a project involving bacteria in Arabidopsis plant roots. At the same time, … chemotaxis in the Arabidopsis microbiome, particularly, how bacteria can be driven toward compounds produced by the …

… of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of … and was demonstrated using a specific group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in North Sea algal blooms. The workflow …

… to find beautiful diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, O’Malley and her team are amassing all … kinds of supplies in the quest to break down plants.  In 2016, her team leveraged transcriptomics and other assays to … genomics and transcriptomics to discover another advantage these fungi wield: the capacity to form enzyme …