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… synthesis and broad diversity of terpenes. Until recently, studies of the TPS gene family were confined to two … Corymbia are more abundant in the drier parts of Australia with lower quality soils and even in the desert areas with poor rainfall. That said, Corymbia can also thrive in …

… two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees … bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found that pollen’s pectin and … down hemicellulose. The authors think this might have to do with the differences in lifestyle: honey bees need ample …

… Metabolism Collaboratory data portal I’ve been working on with my colleagues Drew Doering and Bryce Foster and too … notes at naturalprodcast.com — I went a little overboard with links on this, since I’m hoping this episode and the … made, how do you test the bioactivity, how do you tinker with the machinery. And so it really is a blend of a lot of …

… wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial … Harnessing the collective power of more than 26,000 microbiome datasets, all accessible through the publicly …

… harness the traits that let this biomass powerhouse thrive. Within its genome, Sorghum bicolor holds keys to drought and … JGI Plant Program. Lovell was a senior author on this work with Nadia Shakoor, a research scientist at Donald Danforth … is the result of an international collaboration, beginning with the work of the late Todd Mockler, a researcher at …

… how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what … eating are microbes.   And so that led him to come to me with the question, well, how are the microbes being affected … could become more sustainable through applications of microbiome science; our water quality, our water resource …

… and math (STEM) fields. This summer, they worked with Zhong Wang’s and Tanja Woyke’s groups, respectively. … Internship (SULI) Program students. Sharon Cao worked with Zhong Wang while Karen Tolentino worked with … and, Lizhen Shi , a graduate student conducting independent studies in Zhong Wang’s group. …

… to help develop the JGI’s community outreach efforts with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind. Microbiome ecologist Shade became Director of Research at … data. She is also interested in reaching and engaging with new international collaborators and other scientific …

… piece was written by Call, a postdoctoral fellow in the JGI Microbiome Data Science Group led by Kyrpides. Since early …

… species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 … many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 encompasses four … out. The work on single cells was done in collaboration with scientists Tanja Woyke and Rex Malmstrom at the U.S. …

… to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral … scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides. To … on one or both sides by genes from the host organism. With the virus-host boundary clearly defined using …