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… 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 … 597 genes coding for proteins that are unique to photosynthesizing organisms.  “And perhaps surprising to a lot of …

… 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 …

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 …

… 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 …

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 …