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… A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of … may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a colored-in page of that book. Published online September 28, 2022, in … information fully free and openly available to the broader scientific community.” Uri Gophna from Tel Aviv University, …

… Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting researchers to apply for access to … to contact? A:  Contacts are listed on the proposal call page. Feel free to  reach out to any of them with questions. … and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In … and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident … an average surface temperature of about 58° Fahrenheit (14° Celsius) — a cool intermediate to the ocean’s extremes … 5th Assessment Report to predict where and how fast the 14° Celsius boundary is moving. “It’s driven by climate: …

… as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the Industrial Biotechnology private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites and … a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a …

… understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to … these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of …

… and analysis techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated with microeukaryotes, enhances our understanding of … sequencing technologies to explore microbial diversity — with an emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and including …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics … by collecting nearly 500 single cells from a single low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed … single cell portion of this work was performed by Danielle Goudeau and Rex Malmstrom of the JGI’s Microscale …

… subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  microbes resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by … within the Census of Deep Life Sequencing call 2018, phase 14 project “Development of novel archaeal viruses and the …

… in 2004 from the Max Planck Institute in Hanover, Germany, where he developed novel tools for large-scale in situ gene … organisms. During his postdoctoral training at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he developed and … the gene regulatory landscape of vertebrate genomes, which led to the discovery of thousands of genetic switches …

… seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and … can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  … their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the direction of …

… Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon … researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also … act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the U.S. …