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… Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely … are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… Retracing how the dry rot Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new ecological habitat. The Science By … on why the dry rot ( Serpula lacrymans ) is so destructive in houses. A study involving six brown rot fungi … from Europe, that was sequenced and analyzed by the JGI. The researchers found that S. lacrymans var. lacrymans …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic … Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series …

… the functions of the biosynthetic gene clusters that produce them. The Impact Secondary metabolites are microbial … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … yield new tools for pest control. Secondary metabolites are highly regulated in bacteria, making it difficult to …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The … by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Neha’s key role is to design, benchmark, and apply bioinformatics software to enable analysis and interpretation of genomic and metagenomic data for JGI’s user community. She also provides support for user …

… uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … The microbes that play key roles in cycling nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated … from metagenomes is challenging and often results in highly fragmented data, which limits the ability of …

… relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better understand how … and experimented with the fungi and bacteria, while the DOE JGI team sequenced and annotated a host genome (Rm ATCC … Nature Communications , the team found that the fungus is highly dependent on the Burkholderia endobacteria to …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database …

… 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 … in carbon sequestration, understanding how it responds to higher temperatures and a changing environment is vital to …

… s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have … help inform engineering microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot … Until now,  Chloroflexota had not been known to produce flagella — propeller-like structures that enable …