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Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and … into the function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, …

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase … characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of … — ultimately allowing them to adapt to life on land. Learning that these genetic tools existed in close algal …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature … United States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to collect samples from across the country to standardize the process. They noted …

… in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 … the JGI has really motivated me to think outside of simply looking for jobs/postdocs in industry or academia. It was … One of my favorite thing about my JGI internship was the learning experience I got in computational research. …

Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science … scientific questions relevant to the DOE mission, and we look forward to facilitating their success. “ The CSP Annual …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … on Alaska’s glacially dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, …

… focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from … microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial …