Monthly Archives: August 2020

Dr. Rob Knight and CMI researchers develop tool to identify patterns driving differences in microbial composition

Compositional tensor factorization that allows control for individuality across time or space will enable significant advancements in the field of microbiome research   Dr. Rob Knight, Faculty Director for the Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI), and a team of researchers at UC San Diego, UCLA, and the Flatiron Center for Computational Biology unveiled in a…

CMI Researcher Receives $7.3M DOE Grant to Address National Crop Productivity Through Soil Microbes

Multi-year research project will explore how to reduce microbial competition for organic Nitrogen and increase plant efficiency for long-term sustainable bioenergy production UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) Faculty Member Karsten Zengler and a team of researchers have been awarded a $7.3 million grant over a five-year period from the U.S. Department of…