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… discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis.  This is a continuation of the previous … lineages in biogeochemical cycles and beyond, as well as microbial symbioses. We aim to foster discussions centered … to capture, define, quantify, and functionally characterize microbial diversity. The Symposium will also focus on …

… could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps via horizontal gene transfer would have occurred between the …

… corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these compounds via clear, straight pathways, entailing the function of more …

… then co-culturing isolated viruses in eukaryotic  microbial hosts. Lately, researchers have used … have quickened the pace of understanding these viruses via their genomes, paving the way for future targeted …