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… 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 …

… 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 …

… the appropriate contextual information, or metadata, stored with them. GOLD provides manually curated metadata resources … are accessible on JGI data portals including the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, enhancing … publication. Information is also obtained and cross-checked with public resources including NCBI Taxonomy and various …

… 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 …

… The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do … partnership. The class decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched … was also able to receive training for the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) portal for their …

… Photobiont and fungus (mycobiont) live intertwined, with the photobiont transferring part of its … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … . To explore the genomes, Armaleo and colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the …

… corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize … Plants that the zealexin pathway has an “hourglass” shape with diverse precursors in, and many different products out, … data from these lines to identify genes associated with zealexin synthesis. The researchers used proteomics to …

… then co-culturing isolated viruses in eukaryotic  microbial hosts. Lately, researchers have used … , diversity exists in infectious cycles, as well, with viruses relying on different strategies for initiation, …

… was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools … of California (UC), Berkeley, which is also affiliated with the Innovative Genomics Institute. The Impact The … study senior author Jennifer Doudna’s lab, and he worked with co-first author David Burstein, then a postdoctoral …

… had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed … Being an intern here has allowed me to make connections with the top of the top scientists in their fields. I have … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …

… He studies fungal biodiversity, ecology, and evolution, with a focus on microbiome sciences and fungal symbioses. He has worked closely with both the Fungal & Algal Program and the Microbial Program over the past decade in gene regulatory …