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… stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more … first paper that describes sorghum’s response to drought, from a large-scale field experiment to uncover the … JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be a Flagship Plant. By uncovering and characterizing the mechanisms through which …

… of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in … on Microbiome Data Science. His group is developing novel methods for enabling large-scale comparative analysis, … Analyses of Human Microbiomes Reveal Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed …

… Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the … and agriculture. Understanding the compositions of river microbiomes—who the core microbes are and what they do—can … This work was partially supported by awards from US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Office …

… lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader … lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing major fungal families, including those … , the work was led by a consortium of researchers from the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and …

… maybe it’s a new culture of a new bacteria that you pulled from the soil, maybe it’s, you know, we talked about … lot of like synthetic chemistry effort to create a bunch of novel compounds that actually didn’t pan out. DAN: And there … we can find more things. Turns out some of the early genomes that were sequenced for, say, Streptomyces – they …

… Laboratory. Being a User Facility means that scientists from all over the world bring us big problems related to … so it’s some kind of – Is it a compound that helps them from drying out? Or… What is it? DAN:  Yeah I don’t know! … You know, a billion dollar drug. But where taxol comes from is, from the bark of the yew tree, is where it was …

… have a massive undertaking: sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using team science to do it.   …