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… research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools … approaches to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the … virus genomics, where he has engaged in collaborative, interdisciplinary research focused around developing …

Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal … a variety of genomics-powered tools to study this complexity, including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics … Research Team    … Plant microbiomes hold the amazing ability to influence plant development, fitness and health. This …

… team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey at Duke University and Uwe … with his DOE  Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award, which is also focused on single-cell and spatial …

… in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. … can affect their prey in different ways. They have the capacity to kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they … environments have detected viruses outnumbering hosts by orders of magnitude, the team found that in the microbial …

… organisms. PhycoCosm is one of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and …

… derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. The main object of her research was the …

… these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point … and sugars. How photosynthesis works, though, is much harder to pin down.  Photosynthesis appears to have a lot in common with a Rube Goldberg machine: surprising dependencies, …

… organisms. PhycoCosm is one of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and …

… is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley … she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of … Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one … i.e., XY instead of XX. But, like some plant and songbird species, the system in shrub willow is flipped: females …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic …