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… is a staff scientist at PNNL and thrust lead on PNNL’s Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the … in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in …

… to have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found … sheds light on a poorly understood group of oleaginous or oil-producing fungi, and the impact this mutualistic … JGI team sequenced and annotated a host genome (Rm ATCC 52813) as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes project. As reported …

… estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also act as a … plant, but it thrives in nutrient-poor, acidic and waterlogged environments, occupying every continent except … U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. For the sphagnome project, germplasm establishment …

… When Lawrence embarked on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand into … his PhD dissertation defense presentations and beyond. In 2018, a friend of his wife’s passed along an open postdoc … resilience to warming . New Phytol. 2022 Jun;234(6):2111-2125. doi: 10.1111/nph.18072.   Byline: Ashleigh Papp …

… to examine microbial chemical production. The Science Soil bacteria in the genus Streptomyces are nature's chemical … of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported … of Energy operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in … RiPP biosyntheses. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. 2023 Feb 17;50(1):kuad005. Otani H, Udwary DW, Mouncey NJ. … Characterization of p-hydroxycinnamate catabolism in a soil Actinobacterium. J. Bacteriol. 196, 4293-4303. Otani, …

… 2024 Berkeley Lab Recognition of Excellence Award 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement … T., Rübel, O., Keasling, J., Northen, T., & Bowen, B. (2017). OpenMSI Arrayed Analysis Toolkit: analyzing spatially …

… over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he launched scale-up of algal geomics and PhycoCosm … by anaerobic fungi.  Nature Microbiol. 8(4):596-610. Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function.  Nature Microbiol. …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … enrichment activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first internship experience, while …