Search

… dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect … methods for the first time to comprehensively characterize viral-host interactions. The team discovered that the mat’s … National Laboratory, used single-cell sequencing to sequence both a cell’s genome and detect accompanying viral …

… Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Woyke , JGI’s deputy of User Programs. “The proposed research by these PIs will address a broad diversity of … inter-organismal interactions, understanding natural communities important for carbon storage, nutrient cycling, …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health … (DOE) Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research program because of its relevance to understanding the … taxonomic makeup and functional potential of needle-surface communities.  Part of the work was done through a summer …

… AMGs in soil viruses thought to break down chitin, the gene sequences were cloned by the JGI.  The JGI’s DNA synthesis … tree was then constructed with the sequence data to compare viral chitosanases to others like it available in public … and AMGs. It could spawn future research into understanding why these AMGs exist in the first place, and what function …

… Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, … the research consortium aims to generate over a terabase of sequence. “We are thrilled to support this year’s CSP … functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial communities, and understanding of natural environmental …