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… Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is to: train students and professors in laboratory techniques and data analyses compile … Beyond providing a scalable solution for production of high-quality fungal reference genomes, this program is an …

… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers studied microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing …

… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples collected from acidic iron-oxide microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park over time, … thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence from just a few pieces of DNA. Summary The extreme …

… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform — has … and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein …

… registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for … and Environment (INRAE). Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …