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Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora … a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) that allow them to efficiently break down the wide … sources, these fungi detect which complex chains are available; this information triggers pathways to determine which …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal … Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has generated a more accurate … (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using whole genome data from newly sequenced genomes, …

… for multiple applications.       Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced … in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a … new home of the JGI and KBase in the heart of the Lab’s 200-acre campus—with the big move from leased space in … We encourage you to read through it, provide us feedback and to help us calibrate progress toward our near- and …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and … these symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these … Frontiers Group, the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an international team led by graduate student Fantin Mesny in … Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Their findings were described in …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) proved to vastly reduce labor and improve results. Applying this method to the study …

… 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — … estuaries reshaped by dam removal to Antarctica’s photosynthetic mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and … these projects are large in scale and involve multiple collaborators, bringing together diverse expertise to address …