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Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: … is designed to familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data and workflows …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … of enzymes. It’s useful to differentiate these enzyme tools into two groups: core metabolism and specialized … to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called FastTree and …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The … PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … and analysis, the researchers identified other bacteria and microbial processes that support PCE biodegradation. The …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these … places that are considered to be inhospitable to humans are of particular interest. Matt also supports various CSP and …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … environments — ultimately allowing them to adapt to life on land. Learning that these genetic tools existed in close algal relatives  to terrestrial …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing … of HCR-FISH+FACS for selectively enriching low abundance microbial groups from complex natural communities. This type …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … and its close relative  Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel feedstocks of interest to the … reproduce can help guide breeding efforts. For example, discovering genetic markers of sex enables scientists to …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … of phage-bacterial coevolution and are also useful tools in CRISPR-Cas applications, but we are limited in our …

UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto …