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… interview with my co-host Alison Takemura, who’s moved on from JGI to do real journalism, and we wish her all the … since I started the podcast, I get lots of questions from scientists about whether and how they can work with the … a focus within BER anymore. We really focus on terrestrial ecosystems, but we work in coastal environments, brackish …

… the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany with … water research. The meeting involved key representatives from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for … as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem health. To facilitate in-depth discussions on …

… with JGI mentors. In this episode, hear two interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into …

… it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than ever before. In 2006, the JGI … users — have access to high-quality, assembled datasets from all of this information. The JGI aims to create … assembly and analysis.   To put these efforts into perspective, we caught up with JGI staff, collaborators and …

… JGI Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel provided a broader perspective:  “ This exciting work is well aligned with the … which included two  workshops with resulting reports and a  perspective article .   … From our partners … From our partners …

… gene duplications, and even more ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of … today. Boasting adaptations in order to protect themselves from environmental stresses, ferns’ secondary metabolites … of the fern’s defense-related gene families were snatched from bacteria. The insertion of transposable elements — also …

… recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, including the U.S. Department of … ruminant guts, sediments, and anaerobic bioreactors. Aside from producing energy that the organisms can use to thrive, … a list of prokaryotes with fermentative metabolism from the literature. They then used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG …

… habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained insights on … of two strains of fungi Serpula lacrymans – var. lacrymans from Europe and var. shastensis from North America – against a third fungal Serpula species, …

… maybe it’s a new culture of a new bacteria that you pulled from the soil, maybe it’s, you know, we talked about … that combinatorial chemistry, learning some of the lessons from natural products, in terms of what kinds of chemical … So I do want to interject from a more molecular biology perspective, like if you have a cluster of genes, why can’t …

… a condition known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic … genome doubling. In allopolyploids, the set of chromosomes from each ancestor is called a subgenome. Session and … wasn’t completely accurate. “They took every single gene from octoploid strawberry, compared it to other …

… novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing … foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these sequences are … to viruses. To do so, they compared samples collected from an aquifer in 2012 and 2018 against a biofilm sample …