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… prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP (pronounced “eye-pop”,  freely … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost … in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program generated many new high-confidence host predictions across a variety of …

… Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in hard-to-reach places that …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … from both plant cells and fungal cells. “Because this technology relies on just polyadenylated transcript capture …

… then co-culturing isolated viruses in eukaryotic  microbial hosts. Lately, researchers have used … to gain insight into the  genomes of giant viruses. In a new review, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy … approaches has yielded discovery of thousands of new giant viruses, rapidly expanding the diversity of the  …

… National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He … in Science, 2012 Editorial Board: BMC Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, Journal of Fungi, AIM Microbiology …

… (NSF) and supports underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. At the 2016 …

… how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate …

… June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is …

… to the terrestrial ecosystems exposed fungi to numerous new ecological niches and triggered rapid diversification of … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     …

… Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which … The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to more researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to … reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …