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… to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

… team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of … suggest viruses are indeed piggybacking their hosts. Though studies in marine environments have detected viruses … through the mat, so they’re likely constrained to a local population of host cells. If they were to lyse all those …

Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, … in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … information is still computationally derived. Experimental studies on cultivated isolates are needed to convert the …

… to try and create an open source database of all known microbial natural products. So if you think about natural … products science as a field, we have arguably been studying microbial natural products in an ordered way for perhaps 80 … environmental roles of these compounds? Can we perform studies such as looking at the distributions of different …

… knowledge of viral diversity and virus-host interactions in microbial systems. Through a 2021 DOE Early Career Research … and evolutionary drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil microbial communities. … B.S. in Microbiology, … Nature Biotechnology 37, 29–37. Berg et al., 2021. Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in …

… genomic revolution, to me, as a natural part chemist for microbial natural product, is that I love microbial natural products is because one of the traditional … it takes years to regrow the trees back. And the beauty for microbial natural products is the microorganism, and you can …

… what the majority of them do. We have in-depth biological studies on a sliver of the molecules nature provides to us. …

… mSystems. 5 (3) Schulz et al. (2018) Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Communications. 9 (1), 1-9 Schulz …

State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially dominated Copper … interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated plots and …

… including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all … how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by microbial partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered …