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… The Blob, researchers developed a preliminary model of how marine microbial communities are affected by warming … studies could help researchers improve predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by …

… components that make it useful for scientific inquiry: it shows a full phylogenetic tree of more than 100 sequenced … experiments; study DNA methylation, which gives clues to how an organism may tune gene expression; and investigate corresponding proteins. PhycoCosm’s built-in connection to the DOE Systems …

… (including humans), grassland soils, even deep-sea hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which … which organisms the viruses may be targeting or infecting, how well the targeted organisms are at fending off the infection, and how long this evolutionary arms race has been going on.  …

… hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, … Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated the efficacy and potential … (Berkeley Lab). Transcription factors control when and how genes are turned on or off, so transcriptional … including activators, repressors and sigma factors. However, currently the process for identifying the …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. The … an insertion site for the E. coli cyclic di-GMP binding protein, Ec YcgR, within the Nano-lantern scaffold. They then mined sequence databases for homologous YcgR proteins and chose a set of 92 proteins for functional …

… diversity among inoviruses with more than 3,400 different proteins, many linked to key functions such as virion … replication and integration. The researchers also learned how an inovirus’ strategy of integrating itself within a … to avoid CRISPR-Cas immunity. In addition, Borges also showed that inoviruses might prevent new phages from …

… contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab protocols at the bench to applying artificial intelligence to … Jonelle Basso, Heejung Cho Project:  Characterizing how resident phages shape their host phenotype Graduate … Banu Frousnoon Project:  Optimizing transformation protocol for higher efficiency in Issatchenkia orientalis …