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Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And … how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the … Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

… hear from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project … well, how are the microbes being affected by the metals? When metals are introduced, how do they adapt by changing … are for the ecosystem. ALISON:  So, Ed is trying to understand how the molecules in tiny microbes can impact …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … is part of a  larger CSP Functional Genomics proposal to understand terpene  synthesis and function across many … causes wilting ( Pantoea stewartii ) were much more severe when the zealexin biosynthetic pathway was knocked out. …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science … team was able to identify enzymes in the soil and who made them. Based on data reported in the April issue of Soil …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In … the microbial strain’s genome sequence was not in IMG/M when the NRAP samples were originally analyzed a decade ago. … monitored and the team plans to continue collecting data to understand the ERD process.  … The work (proposal:  …

… (AICE) Biology class at Florida’s Boca Raton Community High School. The course had a defined set of objectives, … from Google maps to plan their route, and had to adapt when they noticed while collecting the samples on canoes … challenges for collecting these soil samples, the students made coring devices, then planned and collected from 4 sites …

The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, tested … out the sequences representing microbes of interest. When the microbe of interest is a tiny fraction of that … ETOP helps researchers develop technology that can then be made available to JGI users in order to address pressing …

… gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential … produce them cannot be activated in lab environments. CRAGE made some headway in overcoming this obstacle when it hit the scene in 2019. Now, that power is poised to …