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… And many JGIers work to connect those big goals with their everyday activities, striving for sustainability … as embodied emissions. “So these are emissions that were made in creating goods and performing services,” Fulton … storing precious samples. Another shift that happened when the JGI was still located in Walnut Creek was starting …

… (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 …

… 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.  …

… 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. …

… 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 … A portion of this research was per- formed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS; …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … genome. Today, the Sanger Institute focuses on genomics to understand human and pathogen biology. Du Toit invited JGI … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at …

… to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube … in sulfur-rich mangrove sediments not far from his lab when he first encountered the bacteria. “When I saw them, I … that they were a ‘macro’ microbe was fascinating!” “She understood that it was a bacterium belonging to the genus …

… provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , … rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental United States. They also provided multiple access points to … and human health, energy production and agriculture. Understanding the compositions of river microbiomes—who the …