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… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … are more active in fixing and metabolizing nitrogen, a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to … fungal enzymes actually outnumbered bacterial enzymes 3-to-1. Additionally, the fungal enzymes the team found …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond to increases in temperature and elevated … carbon is stored in peatlands, which make up nearly 3 percent of the earth’s land surface. In the New …

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, researchers take a look at … with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … public database for the research community. With more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology in 2022-2023. … Nigel Mouncey is the Secondary Metabolites Program head … World Bio Markets Bio-based Business Person of the Year Publications Committee Chair (2016- ), Society for …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … researchers recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, including the U.S. … phenotype and genotype of fermentative prokaryotes on IMG … Publication … Datasets … Datasets … Datasets …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature … of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … these infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive the energy and nutrient … Research and operated under Contract Numbers DE-AC02–05CH11231 (JGI) and DE-AC05–76RL01830 (EMSL). This work was funded …

… the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the … and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem. Microbiome 11, 237 Roux et al., 2023. iPHoP: An … Microbiology Resource Announcements … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is … protecting these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … from looking at single organisms to applying a broader ecosystem perspective, involving more multidisciplinary …

… novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … , information the Probst lab used to search for and find 13 additional predicted viral  genomes . The team dubbed …