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… an interactive public database for the research community. With more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of … experience in developing a secondary metabolites portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as …

… these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of … evaluates multiple predictions to reliably match viruses with their archaea and bacteria hosts. The Impact Within the … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

… of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly … and the Georgia Institute of Technology focused on microbial communities from freshwater ecosystems, including, …

JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and … their work. It’s fun to be around people who are generous with their time and like nerding out about the big stuff, …

… from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their …

… pin down.  Photosynthesis appears to have a lot in common with a Rube Goldberg machine: surprising dependencies, … on this structure, Grosjean and Blaby-Haas collaborated with a range of researchers across the Albert Einstein … the instrumentation — but the experts we were able to work with on this project to ask questions about structure and …

… two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … down hemicellulose. The authors think this might have to do with the differences in lifestyle: honey bees need ample …

Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep … to become much simpler; instead of aligning sequences with popular, but computationally costly approaches such as … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other plant-associated fungi. Their … determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can … Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) studied how fungi associate with roots in A. thaliana plants. The work also involved …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … Over time, MGEs can help microbes gain a competitive edge within an ecosystem. They influence the composition of the …

… lead on PNNL’s Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI …

… in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. … in coastal sediments,” said Woyke, who also heads the JGI’s Microbial Program and is one of the article’s senior … paradigm of what constitutes a bacterial cell and advances microbial research.” One Giant Bacterium, Multiple Research …