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… and dynamic metabolite networks of environmental microbes and how they transform their environment. Research …

… Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, … analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program … Nat Biotechnol. 2011; 29: 922-927. Eastwood DC et al. The plant cell wall-decomposing machinery underlies the …

… research programs for developing methods for converting plant biomass into sustainable fuels for cars and jets. By … relationships between sequence variation and plant stress responses. For example, offspring of a cross between the … regions that control gene expression and physiological responses to drought. They found that trans-regulating …

… little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow … climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in … It performs C4 photosynthesis, which is the fastest way for plants to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their … Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The … of how a fundamental mechanism of evolution — DGRs — allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds … group at the JGI, thinks that if you’re a virus or a microbe with a DGR, you gamble every time you mutate. But, …

… Terpenes are made via a tangled network of enzymes in plants. To better pinpoint the biosynthetic routes that … productive; more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … expression in the organism Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can utilize carbon oxides, including the greenhouse …

… to include in vitro protein-based techniques, algae, and plants, while focusing on understanding the evolution and … (2015) where she co-founded and led the Quantitative Plant Science Initiative (2017-2022), a BER Science Focus … Stübe R, Argüello JM and Merchant SS. (2014) Evolution of a plant- specific copper chaperone family for chloroplast …

… After working on his post-doctoral position with the Plant and Microbe Interaction group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, …

… evolutionary history. Retaining ancestral features of both plant and animal cells, it shares nearly 7,000 genes with … (a third of those shared by both humans and flowering plants). Its genome also contains hundreds of genes uniquely … stumbled upon an interesting observation in Chlamy. Most plants require the nutrient copper for photosynthesis; …

… and researchers are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline … extent of the Antarctic microbial pan-genome. Since these microbes thrive under extreme temperature and salinity … due to gene transfer events. Such events can occur in response to viral infections and are important for …