Results
By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean … light microscope, and fickle, often hiding their function from even the most determined scientist. Recent work in …
Learn more
… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what … their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have …
Learn more
The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of … autonomy; they can be isolated and grown separately from each other. A possible explanation, according to the …
Learn more
Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly … and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon …
Learn more
… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements … with traditional approaches. … Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Biochemistry, University of Delaware BA in Biology, Boston … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …
Learn more