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… agricultural productivity. Research spans diverse areas — from understanding how terrestrial plants and phytoplankton … plant resilience — highlighting the vulnerabilities of monocultures and the benefits of nitrogen-fixing nodules in … development of complex biomolecules — which can include antimicrobial and anti-pest compounds.  The program is working …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences …

… Innovative technology from this biomanufacturing collaboration is available for … describe a strategy to recover high value products from human waste. They   genetically modified yeast to … million annually.  The team is working on developing new microbial strains that can synthesize other bio-based …

… species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets … and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of modern, … To create this reference sequence, the team relied on bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs), vectors that can …

… the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program since 2011. Prior … on Microbiome Data Science. His group is developing novel methods for enabling large-scale comparative analysis, …