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… World Bio Markets Bio-based Business Person of the Year Publications Committee Chair (2016- ), Society for … Microbiology and Biotechnology Diversity Committee Member (2015-2016), Society for Industrial Microbiology and … Biotechnol. 39:499-509 Hurley A et al. 2021. Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery. mBio . …

… A(nswer): Possibly, it would depend on the sample. However, we don’t do this because they typically contain … contaminants that interfere with metabolomics analysis.  Q: Can you give us an idea about the scale of an average study? … water availability, temperature variations etc are all more extreme in the field. By having transcriptomics data across …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant … the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same … and giant viruses offered the researchers insights into how they might interact with their hosts, and how those …

… The Blob, researchers developed a preliminary model of how marine microbial communities are affected by warming … Summary As global temperatures rise, so do instances of extreme weather events such as hurricanes and droughts. … scarce during the heatwave, they saw populations shift. Smaller picoplankton and free-living microbes that can fix …

… set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the …

… without a defined nucleus). Colder waters nearer the poles, however, tend to favor eukaryotes ( microorganisms with a … the global ocean. Instead, they sharply delineated into two big geographical groups: those in colder, polar waters, and … (14° Celsius) — a cool intermediate to the ocean’s extremes of about 28° and 97° Fahrenheit. “The study authors …

… Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient … their yields and improving their abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The … of biofuel grasses can be studied from simpler (and smaller) models, Miscanthus has a large and complex genome …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or … These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To … Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Sustainable Systems …

… activity and chemical output over time, the team mapped how the bacterium redirects its energy, building blocks and … production, the study provides a blueprint that engineers can use to design more efficient microbial factories. … dozens of growth conditions and found that adding a small amount of common salt to the Streptomyces coelicolor …

… Microbiology of nearly 2,000 of these genomes reveals just how much we still have to discover about Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations … pairs, most fungal genomes contain fewer than 50 million — small enough that thousands can be sequenced and compared …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the …