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… a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue … microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study individually. … microbial DNA is manually separated into a few different groups based on its density — DNA containing isotopes is …

… program and current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution … over a billion years old. It’s an insanely diverse group of organisms that include some delicious additions to a … acids are assembled, which then band together to build proteins. What Wint and her mentors discovered in the genomes …

Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. … to definitively prove two other archaea within the Thermoproteota phylum —  Korarchaeia and  Methanomethylicia   — … down potential sources of methanogenesis, with metagenomic support from the JGI. First they were able to identify the …

… of scientific policy, engaging in interactions with the scientific community at large. … 2021 LBNL … lipid metabolism in microalgae .  Nature Plants 1: 15107 Lupiáñez DG, Kraft K, Heinrich V, Krawitz P, Brancati F, … 89-93. Hess M, Sczyrba A, Egan R, Kim TW, Chokhawala H, Schroth G, Luo S, Clark DS, Chen F, Zhang T, Mackie RI, …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science … a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi … The Impact Healthy forests store carbon, filter water, and support all kinds of plants and animals, but with climate …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when … the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and improvement strategies … T., Lovell, J. T.., et al. 2023. JGI plant gene atlas: an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene …