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… of Energy (DOE) has invested in training the next generation workforce through funding opportunities managed … genomes. They manually curate data to connect to the newly generated Myco-Ed reference genomes made available in the … . These data improve the quantity and quality of fungal gene annotations available to the global research …

… internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the … Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What effect has your summer internship with the …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science … it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their … which microorganisms used the labeled substance and which microbes did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab …

… The ability to accurately edit genomes (that is, repair gene mutations, and either delete or add genes in a precise fashion) has applications across many … to be unearthed in sequencing and analyzing uncultivated microbes. Summary The CRISPR-Cas system is an immune …

… of a plant in the soil. And I’m specifically working with a grass plant that’s similar to wheat and rice called …

… dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques …

… Oh, the magical world of the cow stomach. Rumen – and its microbes – are really a powerhouse. Rumen microbes have the … environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential … many scientists.”  Using samples of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen …

… the roles of microbial communities in carbon cycling, in interactions with plants, and as drivers of methane …

… up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … regulation as well as identification of target genes of transcription factors, particularly sigma factors …