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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 … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science …

… From August 21-23, 2023, attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment … career progressed, Hungate has gotten more interested in microbes with the potential to impact global climate change, … climate change, we need to understand the ecology of those microbes.” And to understand those microbes, he is most …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery … to other methods. The Impact Understanding how individual microbes interact with each other in a community, and … communities, is crucial to understanding how these microbes respond and adapt to environmental changes. Summary …

… 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. …

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

… 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, … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers around the … collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… 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 …

… MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western …