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… marine natural product biosynthesis and at the beginning stages of connecting molecules and genes. And then genomics … would spend time between our two laboratories doing metagenomics, some genomics. We were a little concerned … end of last year. Dan: So these are going to be seaweed metagenomes? You’re sequencing everything? Brad: Metagenomes …

… of this giant filamentous bacterium, along with its life cycle. For most bacteria, their DNA floats freely within the … Group to better understand what this sulfur-oxidizing, carbon fixing bacterium was doing in the mangroves. … and their microbiomes are important ecosystems for carbon cycling . If you look at the space that they occupy …

… I’d never poured a Petri dish. I didn’t know what a thermocycler looked like. I was imagining some massive contraption … from sediment cores in Antarctica that have– some of being carbon-dated to kind of 15,000, 150,000 years ago. So this … exciting. And why chemistry is so far behind in that stage is it’s still really difficult to do natural products …

… data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s … to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … and the University of Vienna  reported recovering draft metagenome-assembled genomes for seven novel species of …

… stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on … floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao …

… a modified version of a specific chemical, where ordinary Carbon-12 atoms are swapped for the heavier, non-radioactive … For example, SIP experiments can show how soil microbes cycle nitrogen and carbon, or how freshwater ecosystems … easier to compare?” said Malmstrom, who worked with JGI Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh to host …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, … significant role sex plays in how the moss grows, stores carbon and responds to stress. The Impact Despite …

… (already known as CRISPR) that came up in her team’s metagenomic  samples . While Banfield continued exploring the … on Earth,” Weizmann explained.   These algae take up carbon dioxide and emit oxygen and other gasses — some of … you all know,” Vardi shared. Crucial for the global carbon cycle, photosynthetic phytoplankton do not operate alone. …

… these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these … organisms carry out important environmental processes like  carbon fixation , nitrogen cycling and methane production. … the roles viruses and their host microbes play in nutrient cycles. …

… soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree health and carbon storage — skills that matter increasingly as the …

… mentor students, teaching classes, and really setting the stage for what I really wanted to do and getting to– so I … rest of the archaea and fungal genomes and then work on metagenomes. So yeah. So we’ve taken every public sequence … it’s a very long process in order to go from the first stage of discovery to a molecule that’s actually helping …