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… genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear from CSU San Marcos Professor Matt …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my first publication and it feels so rewarding,” Wint said. For …

… ways to protect poplar and other crops being considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes … The abundance of fungal genomes underscores the need for a more comprehensive exploration of genomic DNA …

… scale of data enabled by these approaches creates a vast resource offering researchers the ability to chart … about 150 million years of evolution,” said Leo Baumgart, first author on the paper and Technical Implementation Lead … Genome-Enabled Discovery All data and code from DAP-seq are publicly available for researchers and scientists to build …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field … alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the … Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . …

… to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product … Y, Otani H, de Raad M, Kuftin AN, et al. Mass Spectrometry for Natural Product Discovery. 2020.  Reference Module in …

… it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University … the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes … on the global nutrient cycles regulated by their hosts. For example, microbes that capture and store carbon in the …

… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes … soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes …

… infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest … more productive cacao plants and ensure there will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow In 2010, a draft first genome of  Theobroma cacao  – the tree that produces …

… to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how … in the absence of oxygen. These findings offer the first real irrefutable proof that lignin can be …

… State University, Jonathan Eisen of the University of California, Davis, and Michael Köpke of Lanzatech are the latest … technologies, and toward a secure energy portfolio for DOE priorities.  Bik is an associate professor at the … membership in the UEC, Bik aims to serve as an advocate for early-career scientists and unconventional sample types …