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… global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science 2017, Nature Microbiology 2018), discovery of … thermostable Cas9 with increased lifetime in human plasma.  Nat Commun . 8(1):1424. Sczyrba A, et al. …

… team led by Daniele Armaleo, a biologist at Duke University, investigated Gray’s Cup lichen  (Cladonia grayi) … work was supported by an intramural seed grant (IGSP 2008001) to DA, FL, and FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic … to DA, FL, and FD (for bioinformatics) from a DOE grant No 112442 to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and by a …

… to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their experiences below. Name: Noelle Anderson Class Year: At the time of the internship, 4th year PhD … Brenda Yu Class Year: 1st year graduate student at Stanford University in the Biophysics program. (Graduated from UC …

… includes access to the NEON Biorepository at Arizona State University, which archives and makes available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 different types of … learn more about BioSANS. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021 for the FICUS proposal call. Q&A from the Webinar: …

In these springs, temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this … into this unique environment, researchers from the University of Calgary and the U.S. Department of Energy … was then used to produce a paired amplicon dataset (a.k.a. 16S rRNA gene sequencing), a shotgun metagenome, and a …

… from an external source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic … until Ronald D. Ower, a researcher from San Francisco State University, developed a technique to successfully obtain … by a set of significantly upregulated glycoside hydrolases, while triglycerides were accumulated initially by the …

… and poplar, a team led by Hui-Ling (Sunny) Liao of the University of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and … and without an inoculation of the  M. elongata strain PM193 added to a diluted soil mixture, publishing  the results … Interactions . The results were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger …

… led the team to identify a gene called Less Shattering 1 (SvLes1); gene editing studies led by co-first author Pu Huang … and assembled the green millet “pan-genome” (a set of 51,000 genes that represent all the genes that are present in …

… team that  recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research groups. The team … below. Sarah Sharman:  What is the JGI Plant Gene Atlas? Avinash Sreedasyam:  JGI Plant Gene Atlas is a huge …

For most bacteria, their DNA floats freely within the cytoplasm of their cells. This newly discovered species of … Antilles and a co-first author on the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify and classify the prokaryote. “I thought they were eukaryotes; I …

… the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Duke University, published their research related to how bacteria … When Lawrence embarked on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand into … his PhD dissertation defense presentations and beyond. In 2018, a friend of his wife’s passed along an open postdoc …

… be spotted with a striped scarf, striped hat, round-rimmed glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature Microbiology , a team led by scientists at … in bacterial immunologist Joe Bondy-Denomy’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco. Both are co-authors …