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… Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and … enzymes discovered in extreme environments to engineered microbiomes that accelerate biomass processing. This year’s … of plants, microbes and microbial communities, and understanding of natural environmental processes — questions …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the … with a nucleus). In part because of this evolutionary diversity, algal genomes can be incredibly complex and … researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome …

… The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … Laboratory. More recently, O’Malley’s team has begun to understand the outsized role the fungi play in digesting … fungi synthesize molecules that are sources of new chemical diversity; the team identified what looked to be three …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … and analysis of their data at the time. Following the publication of their paper in 2011, Dr. Sekimoto from …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … As part of efforts to characterize global microbial diversity with an aim to improve predictive ecosystems …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and … of plants.  Pangenomes encompass a plant’s genetic diversity beyond a single reference genome, which is key to … ) conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly … researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

… DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … student in the Quantitative Systems Biology (QSB) Group under the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). During his eight … on the genetic mechanisms of chemotaxis in the Arabidopsis microbiome, particularly, how bacteria can be driven toward …

… Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … store.      Since 2012, O’Malley has worked with the JGI to understand the enzymes these organisms use to bust biomass … sample, or a rumen sample, you’re going to find beautiful diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, …

… The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … that contribute to carbon cycling, and is interested in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences …