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… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  … So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … be impossible.  And yet, little chemical clues left some researchers wondering if perhaps the accepted narrative wasn’t … with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how …

… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a … the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … of organic material and stores quite a bit of energy. Eventually, that biomass could serve as the starting material …

… The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … fungi play in digesting plant material in herbivore guts. A deeper dive into the genomes and follow-up experiments, …

… insights into environmental tendencies The Science The  Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated … — has been developed to help inform scientists and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon … The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … FICUS program to JEM and used resources at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … microbes are no exception. Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science. It … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key … pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a … in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …

… Over the last few months, we found an increasing number of colleagues missing elements of the required PPE in the lab. To address this issue, we … to provide our colleagues with a visual representation of JGI PPE requirements. When working in the lab, it is … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … Data Collaborative.  This award recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, …