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… Mikes worked with mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. This year, however, there was a new aspect …

… diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a significant impact on … only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase protein …

… and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More recently, these long-reads … deeply are metagenomes sequenced? A:  For the next call ( CSP New Investigator ), up to 4 long-reads (PacBio) …

… to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic … these microbes. A better understanding of virus-host interactions opens the possibility of using phages to … microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost plant-microbe interactions, nutrient cycling, or carbon …

… Garden Club, hosted a DIY Succulent Workshop and Plant Sale. All year, the JGI helps support finding … ZERO Waste Initiative members took on another new effort: planting a potted sustainable garden outside the building. … Garden Club has organized lunchtime gardening sessions to plant succulents and cacti in the large terracotta pots. …

… (Berkeley Lab) through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published … Algal Program makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . …

… Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … latest article, published January 27, is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for more sustainable …

… Is Required for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems Mol Cell. 2020 Aug 6;79(3):416-424.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.06.022. Wright AV et al. A Functional Mini-Integrase in …

… internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the …

… novel viral diversity, molecular mechanisms of virus-host interactions and phage-based technologies for microbiome …