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… polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes … monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce … for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team of researchers has identified the major metabolic roles …

… in various combinations and cloned into a vector of choice; up to 210,000 variants can be made Pool of variant … to determine coverage of variants depends on project Fungal Minimal Draft Lower coverage short-read whole genome … sequencing Assembly, annotation ( Mycocosm ) 256/404 Fungal Standard Draft Whole genome shotgun sequencing using …

… fungi remain largely mysterious. Only about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those sequenced, … Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)’s Fungal and Algal Science Program and JGI users have been at … over a billion years of evolution offers catalogs of enzymes, secondary metabolites, and other parts lists for …

… best things that we do is work with this really great group of biologists that know what they’re doing much better … what we know is they’re quite selective in some way for antifungal activity. They are also, some of them, are … it interacting with, like, a binding pocket for one of the enzymes, so something that’s metal dependent? Is it– and we …

… How photosynthesis works, though, is much harder to pin down.  Photosynthesis appears to have a lot in common with a … provide a list of machine parts, and an idea of their groupings.  One pivotal effort along these lines came from UC … unknown or uncertain function. These genes would allow the team to express this library of encoded proteins at high …

… at protein function within them. The work was led by a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … more than doubled the number of protein families known up until now, and identified many novel structure … pivotal applications in biotechnology, such as DNA editing enzymes.” Leveraging Protein Families in a New Way The …

… ecologists to learn more about the diversity of microbial enzymes, which could have a plethora of potential … by whole genome amplification and shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial laboratory … caught several microbes from known cellulose-degrading groups, the researchers also hooked and were able to …

… Alison and I were lucky to get some time to sit down and have a great chat with him.  I kind of lost count … which is kind of the hallmark or the philosophy of his group and I think in hearing him talk about natural products … might make this molecule and predicting what kind of enzymes might be involved, and then being able to make those …

… microbes and how they transform their environment. Research Team    … For further details, please reach out to the Group Lead …

… The Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of … link functional information with individual cells. Research Team    … For further details, please reach out to the Group Lead …

… The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring generalizable … strains for elevated opportunity for expression. Research Team    … For further details, please reach out to the Group Lead …

… of cultivated bacteria, still persists to date. Research Team    … the bulk of which belong to only three phyla. The Woyke group uses single-cell sequencing as a means to begin filling … For further details, please reach out to the Group Lead …