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…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world …

… of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this group expanded 10-fold, …

Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP is a summer professional … for the summer term (May through August) and selected projects will receive stipend and travel expenses, both for …

… of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go … in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI on five user projects with the JGI, as well as served on review panels … a PI for both CSP New Investigator and large-scale CSP projects. Wilbanks has served on review panels for the JGI’s …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the … Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even … time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than non-polar algae. They … Program makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base … A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes in protein structures and functions, but the DNA bases … and 5mC in fungi could help researchers find ways to protect poplar and other crops being considered for bioenergy …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … These enzymes are crucial for creating nucleic acids and proteins, as well as recycling nitrogen. Now, with insight … 15 species from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, protist, plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to …

… among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for demonstrating “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the … Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … This shows that archaea may use CRISPR systems to protect against other, parasitic archaea. However, when  Ca . …