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A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … interaction that allows plants to better survive in those environments,”  Karen Serrano said. She is first author of … directly to  M. truncatula seedlings grown in a controlled environment chamber, so the fungus could colonize the …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

… green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and …

… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. …

… those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the … that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the world. Much of the data had …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements … that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The … the SPRUCE (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland … .” Understanding the nature and genetic basis of functional traits in sphagnum growth and decomposition is critical to …

Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … on interactions underlying plant adaptation in different environments. He’s been involved in several plant genome … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on …