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… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are … conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers studied microbial communities across five … This work was funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants …

… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics … The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles … conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what these microbes are equipped to do on the leaf surface. More … (DOE) Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research program because of its relevance to understanding …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an … gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. …

… For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … part about interning here is that I get to meet a lot of researchers that have been working on genomics data for a …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day … These kinds of innovations are particularly relevant as climate change intensifies and accelerates drought and … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of … DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Stanford University, the Chan Zuckerberg … applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …

… In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management … while collecting the samples on canoes just how much change had occurred in this region since the images used to … and organic carbon concentration. From Field Studies to Publication Together as a class, the students learned about …