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… plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes …

… and unconventional sample types such as low-biomass samples and host-associated holobionts. She is also …

… Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  in …

… the Baker lab to study microbial communities from sediment samples across spatial and temporal scales. Rambo also plans …

… site exerting the stronger influence. Although no single environmental variable explained these differences, …

… energy and environmental challenges. Chlamydomonas is a single-celled alga with a unique place in evolutionary history. … those gene names speaks to the impact of this tiny, single-celled organism as a model system. “People name genes …

… FastTree and identified 62 distinct AT groups. However, no single AT group was conserved across all species — a …

… decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. The Impact N. crassa is the model organism for …

… plants (endophytes). These include genes that degrade plant cell walls and break down plant sugars. The results also … and can efficiently colonize roots by degrading the plant cell wall component pectin. The results therefore predicted … JGI Fungal Program head Igor Grigoriev , the paper is an “excellent example” of how a 1000 Fungal Genomes project can …

… unique array of chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     … Other surprises in the research include a similar loss of cell walls and a complex pattern of evolution for genes …

… global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell . 185(21):4023-4037 Nayfach S, et al. … map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 8674:00585-7. Nayfach S et al. 2021. CheckV assesses … Is Required for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems. Mol Cell . S1097-2765 Schulz F, et al. 2020. Giant virus …

… In addition, Dr. Cole is focusing on how individual plant cells respond to their biotic environment using emerging single-cell characterization technologies (scRNA-seq, Spatial … Implementation of the Index of Cell Identity as an R package …