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… of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able to pry apart plant polymers … use to bust biomass apart. She and her team find these fungi, and their enzymes, primarily in animal poop.  “As an … to find beautiful diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, O’Malley and her team are amassing all …

… on synthetic biology of engineering gene expression in bacteria – however, the professor was actually quite … And then they wanted so to look at secondary metabolism in bacteria. And what I get intrigued by was that the project … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and … example, the JGI first used CRAGE to engineer domesticated bacterial strains with novel biosynthetic gene clusters … bacterial strains as part of the Community Science Program (CSP)  Functional Genomics proposal call. …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex … thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in … their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can …

Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere …

… described in this webinar only offered through the CSP Functional Genomics call? A(nswer): It’s also possible … capabilities in other calls such as the  annual large-scale CSP call or through the  “Facilities Integrating …

… particularly sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … expand the known transcriptional regulatory network in bacteria, enabling the discovery of regulatory cascades as … of housekeeping genes, many bacteria also encode alternative sigma factors to initiate transcription of gene sets …

… had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish symbiotic … the framework of the Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative (CSP # 305), Metatranscriptomics of Forest Soil Ecosystems project (CSP # 570) and the 1000 Fungal Genome projects (CSP # 662 & …

Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon … research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …