Research Highlights

Date	Last	First	Title
04/26/2023	Gibert	Jean P.	Predicting Changes in Microbial Food Webs
04/10/2024	Mutalik	Vivek K	Deciphering the Functions Encoded in Phage Genomes
04/03/2024	Lee	Taek Soon	For Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Researchers Engineer a Promising Microorganism for Precursor Production
03/27/2024	Piton	Gabin	Soil Bacteria Link their Life Strategies to Soil Conditions
03/20/2024	Trinh	Cong	Yeast Uses Plastic Waste Oils to Make High-Value Chemicals
03/27/2024	Orphan	Victoria J.	Scientists Confirm that Methane-Processing Microbes Produce a Fossil Record
03/06/2024	Kostka	Joel E.	In Peatland Soil, a Warmer Climate and Elevated Carbon Dioxide Rapidly Alter Soil Organic Matter
02/09/2024	Jacobson	Dan	How the Quantum World Can Help Scientists Engineer Biology
02/12/2024	Hofmockel	Kirsten S.	Researchers Directly Detect Interactions Between Viruses and their Bacterial Hosts in Soils
02/20/2024	Mayali	Xavier	Surprising Strategies: Scientists Quantify the Activity of Algal-Associated Bacteria at the Microscale
02/05/2024	Church	George	Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome
10/18/2023	Jacobson	Dan	Signaling Across Kingdoms to Build the Plant Microbiome
11/08/2023	Pan	Chongle	To Study Competition and Cross-Feeding, Scientists Build Synthetic Microbiomes
09/27/2023	Jonikas	Martin C.	Scientists Build a Spatial Atlas of the Chloroplast Proteome, the Home of Photosynthesis
08/09/2023	Abraham	Paul	A Single Gene and a Unique Layer of Regulation Opens the Door for Novel Plant-Fungi Interactions
07/20/2023	Isaacs	Farren J.	Engineering New Metabolic Pathways that Function Across Microbial Kingdoms
06/27/2023	Edwards	Joseph	Host Genetics Play a Significant Role in the Composition of Switchgrass Root Microbiomes
07/24/2023	Egbert	Robert	Taming Undomesticated Bacteria with a High-Efficiency Genome Engineering Tool
06/14/2023	Eloe-Fadrosh	Emiley	To Advance Microbiome Research, the National Microbiome Data Collaborative Ambassador Program Promotes Microbiome Data Standards
06/12/2023	Swaminathan	Kankshita	Researchers Demonstrate First Precision Gene Editing in Miscanthus
05/17/2023	McDermott	Jason	Machine Learning-Based Protein Annotation Tool Predicts Protein Function
05/08/2023	Gibert	Jean-Philippe	Viruses Could Reshuffle the Carbon Cycle in a Warming World
04/17/2023	Gao	Mu	Deep Learning-Drives Insights into Protein-Protein Interactions
12/08/2022	Gladden	John	Rhodosporidium toruloides Engineered to Produce Triacetic Acid Lactone from Sorghum
01/08/2023	Kim	Seungdo	Strong Climate Mitigation Potential of Switchgrass Grown on Marginal Lands
10/14/2022	Parrott	Wayne	Engineered Auxotrophic Agrobacterium Strains Improve Plant Transformation
12/28/2022	Reichert	Nancy	Transformation and Gene Editing in the Bioenergy Grass Miscanthus
07/19/2022	Scown	Corinne D.	In Planta Accumulation of Value-added Bioproducts Compared with Microbial Production Routes
05/19/2022	Missaoui	Ali M.	Researchers Map Genetic Diversity in Switchgrass
06/14/2022	Zhao	Huimin	Oleaginous Yeast Metabolically Engineered to Overproduce Promising Platform Chemical
10/27/2022	Mansfield	Shawn D.	Engineered Poplar with Altered Lignin Composition More Readily Converted to Bioproducts
10/26/2021	Joshi	Chandrashekhar	Modification of Transcription Factor Expression in Poplar Changes Cell Wall Characteristics
10/18/2021	Keasling	Jay	High-Efficiency Production of Terpene Precursors for Next-Generation Biofuels
02/14/2022	Khanna	Madhu	Responsiveness of Miscanthus and Switchgrass Yields to Stand Age and Fertilization
12/06/2021	Stahl	Shannon	Isolating Valuable Compounds from Complex Mixtures of Lignin Products
08/04/2020	Rush	Tomás	Compound Communicates More than Expected in Microbes
09/18/2020	Zhou	Jizhong	New Approach Helps Determine How Much Microbial Community Composition Is Driven by Selection and How Much by Chance
09/04/2020	Blaby-Haas	Crysten	Finding Gene Neighbors Leads to New Protein Functions
02/16/2021	Merchant	Sabeeha	Green Algae Express Genes More Like Bacteria than Previously Thought
02/01/2021	Schadt	Chris	Burning the Forest, Not Just the Trees
03/02/2021	Salvachúa Rodríguez	Davinia	Hungry Fungi: White-Rot Fungi Eat All Components of the Wood They Decompose
03/21/2021	Burnum-Johnson	Kristin	Molecular Connections from Plants to Fungi to Ants
10/19/2020	Adams	Michael	Molybdenum Limits Microbes’ Ability to Remove Harmful Nitrate from Soil
01/26/2021	Coates	John	Microbes Use Ancient Metabolism to Cycle Phosphorus
02/22/2021	Zhou	Jizhong	Warming Soil Means Stronger Microbe Networks
04/27/2021	Hungate	Bruce	Predatory Bacteria, Eat Thy Neighbor
07/09/2020	North	Justin	A Newly Discovered Enzyme Makes Ethylene and Methane
07/21/2021	Morrell-Falvey	Jennifer	Scientists Identify Genes Key to Microbial Colonization of Plant Roots
06/09/2021	Cregger	Melissa	Time, More than Genes, Shapes the Poplar Tree Microbiome
06/07/2021	Hungate	Bruce	Bacterial Carbon Cycling in Soil Is Not a Shared Effort
06/22/2021	Pelletier	Dale	Cultivating the Microbiome of Populus Tree Roots
10/19/2021	Gibert	Jean-Philippe	Microbes Offer a Glimpse into the Future of Climate Change
10/27/2021	Traxler	Matthew	Fungal Recyclers: Fungi Reuse Fire-Altered Organic Matter
04/16/2021	Trinh	Cong T.	Developing Novel Microbial Platforms for Designer Ester Biosynthesis
08/17/2021	Jin	Yong-Su	Engineering Yeast to Efficiently Convert Hemicellulose into High-Value Bioproducts
08/25/2021	Scown	Corinne D.	Assessing the Production Cost and Carbon Footprint of a Promising Aviation Biofuel
02/08/2021	Lowry	David B.	Unlocking a High-Quality Reference Genome for Switchgrass
09/27/2016	Stephanopoulos	Gregory	Oleaginous Yeasts Move One Step Closer to Becoming Industrial Biodiesel Producers
10/13/2008			"Bold Traveler" Microbe Makes its Own Ecosystem Nearly 2 Miles Underground
09/27/2004	Daly	Michael	"Conan the Bacterium's" Secrets Illuminated
06/25/2003			Nature" class="ninja_table_permalink" href="https://genomicscience.energy.gov/highlight/mail-in-crystallography-at-brookhaven-national-laboratory-highlighted-in-nature/">"Mail-in" Crystallography at Brookhaven National Laboratory Highlighted in Nature