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They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their … one day help other organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and …

… and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively …

… from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge …

You can review successful letters of intent and submissions at the bottom of the page.  … Review the list of open calls … are done using web-based forms.   To view the proposal templates, go to the proposal submission page , login using your JGI account (create one here if you don’t already have an account) and click …

… to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California (UC) San Diego, being on the … Microbiome ecologist Shade became Director of Research at France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in October and …

Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He … holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal Program Head at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct …

Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel received his Ph.D. in 2004 from …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a … The best-known example of a modified DNA base is a methylation of the base cytosine at the 5th position on its carbon …

Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is … carbon cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and … common); methylotrophic; and, acetoclastic. All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production …

… complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, …

… be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how … 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any given time. Microbial viruses can thus have …

… feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root … its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the tree’s physical traits and gene expression …