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… with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the … Pangea. McDaniel’s lab continues to work on the enigma of why the ancient moss sex chromosomes continue to evolve so …

… about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those sequenced, roughly half of all genes have completely unknown … for prediction of fungal lifestyles based on genome sequences.” The Fungal Knowledge Gap The fungal kingdom … species lies an even thornier problem: The genomes already sequenced don't adequately capture the vast nature of fungal …

… in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes … graduate student, Joshua Hamm, successfully cultured two strains of Nanohaloarchaeota and showed they required … native microbes. Metagenomes from enrichment cultures were sequenced and assembled by the JGI. From these assemblies, …

… Jill Banfield approached Doudna with repeated genetic sequences (already known as CRISPR) that came up in her … and his group study one specific alga,  Emiliania huxleyi  (sequenced by the JGI), and the virus that infects it,  … my career, with my postdoctoral project beginning with her strains,” Wessler explained. “She was a master of the …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose … at volumetric productivities greater than the source strains. (Blake Rasor) Think of cells as tiny factories: … industry.” From Cell to “Soup” The work started with yeast strains engineered by Alper’s team to convert the sugar …