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But what would you say is– what do you think is the thrust of your lab, going forward? Kate Duncan: Yeah, so I … The cool thing about genomes is you can, well, if your assembly is good, you can see everything, right? You can see … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

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.  …

… with switchgrass biology, information that could be useful toward the DOE’s interest in harnessing the crop as a … a decade ago. As sequencing technologies have advanced, assembly and annotation of the genome sequence has improved in … For example, the current version of the genome is assembled into sequences of 5.5 million basepair (bp) in …

Microscale Applications group at the JGI, whose team uses a semi-automated, standardized process to carry out the … the Genomic Standards Consortium, Wilhelm and Simpson assembled a team of researchers working in this SIP space to … labs. Their labs, as well as Pett-Ridge’s group, will assemble input materials, with eight or nine different teams …

… 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 … the capacity to form enzyme complexes that work like assembly lines for efficiency.  In 2021, her team saw that …

Engineering: Metabolic engineering traditionally utilizes a stepwise approach for strain development, requiring cycles … and analysis tools for comparative genomics of fungi. Mycocosm enables users to navigate across sequenced … and to conduct comparative and genome-centric analyses of fungi and community annotation. … Phytozome is the JGI's …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The … activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are … as well as individual reference fungal genome sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map …