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… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … arms race in uncultivated yet abundant subsurface organisms was  recently reported in Nature Communications. The … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …

Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user facility at Berkeley lab. She earned her PhD in … of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in … heme site ties heme availability to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria. Nature Comm 15:3167. Hammack AT, …

Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation … "Natural Prodcast" podcast, a "fireside chat"-style podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. … PhD in Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University (2003) MS …

… cow stomach. Rumen – and its microbes – are really a powerhouse. Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy … approach which allows scientists to study microorganisms that can’t be cultured by analyzing and then … expanded into three other universities. You can learn more about how JGI data supports higher education in this JGIota …

… amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, … productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team led by … At the 2021 JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked about a multi-year study his student conducted involving …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high … by routing the carbon away from methanogens. In The ISME Journal, a team led by researchers from the University …

Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and …

To understand how organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund study organisms living in hot springs. Hear how their recent work revealed more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way …

La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and …

… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … most bacteria, their DNA floats freely within the cytoplasm of their cells. This newly discovered species of bacteria … explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have never been studied …

… targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and … traditional shotgun metagenomics approach to learning more about environmental samples starts with researchers first … using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) into smaller, less diverse pools before being subjected to genome …

University worked with DOE JGI's Sam Deutsch. Learn more about the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship …