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Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The … of how a fundamental mechanism of evolution — DGRs — allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership between JGI and the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user facility …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their …

… yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their … on the rhizosphere and interactions between the trees, microbes and soil chemistry offers insights into how these … metagenomics, scientists were able to analyze the DNA of microbes living around the tree roots in the rhizosphere. …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a … compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course. …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from additional parents or …

… to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … the interactions that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and … ecosystems by killing other cells. Over time, MGEs can help microbes gain a competitive edge within an ecosystem. They …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The … between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are … of tens of thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take …