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… on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along …

… the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and … innovations, and other technological advancements that facilitate the shift from uncovering microbial …

… in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. … immediately spurred further research and additional discoveries. Stacey noted that even prior to the sequence …

… low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to the … and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the community was similar across sequencing approaches, that species specific sets of single cells harbored mobile …

… graduate students with individual projects at the DOE JGI that provide hands-on experience in cutting-edge genome … is a technique for profiling the small fraction of a genome that contains transcribed instructions for building and … lab, he also took a long view of the opportunity. “I’m getting a picture of the amount of data that’s going to be …

… heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that [DNA Synthesis Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave … been absolutely instrumental in a lot of the work that we are doing now.” Zerbe’s proposal involving six labs … a contract is drawn up to begin the work. Q:  What is it that people will physically receive? What is the product …

Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the virus and plasmid workflows for the National Microbiome Data … This award recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, development of standards … and characterize viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The … Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only around 30% … 80% in most cases. The Impact PTA is a refined capability that is desirable in the microbiome field due to its high …

… such as proteins, and the mechanisms for maintenance to keep processes running smoothly. As reported August 26, … of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but then moves out … bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis of sustainable chemical products,” …

… organelles. Science 376:1453 Schulz et al. 2022. Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved … Nature Biotechnology 39, 499-509. Schulz et al. 2020. Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global … Nature Biotechnology 35, 676-683. Schulz et al. 2017. Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system …