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… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. … food webs, said Schmidt. Several whale species, including gray whales and humpbacks, migrate to feed in the polar …

… programs – some managed by the Lab – to learn more about their experiences. Jehan Jacobs participated in the … Their summer experiences allowed them to learn more about communicating science, utilize the insights they … it? Jehan Jacobs : I have a poster session actually, like just a couple days from now. So I've been thinking about …

… began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … through the Community Science Program . The proposal focuses on uncovering the metabolic networks involved in carbon …

… specific conditions – in over a dozen plants. To learn more about the project, HudsonAlpha’s Research Communication … author Avinash Sreedasyam, a HudsonAlpha senior scientist, about the project. The story is reposted here in modified … It was developed to improve plant genome annotations at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)*, …

… the JGI has also helped researchers understand a fungus that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian Soybean Rust is a major problem. Leaves grow discolored and rust … ASR can decimate up to 60-90% of its yield.  (Learn more about the soybean genome sequence and ASR in this JGIota, a …

… sites and which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. … cells across diverse plant tissues. Dr. Baumgart focuses on expanding functional genomics capabilities through … Lax, Carlos, Stephen J. Mondo, José F. Martínez, Anna Muszewska, Leo A. Baumgart, José A. Pérez-Ruiz, Pablo …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … she said. Listen to study co-author Dan Udwary talk about genome mining using the GEM catalog in  this episode … draft genomes are imperfect, they can still reveal a lot about the biology and diversity of uncultured microbes.” …

… in hot springs. Hear how their recent work revealed more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way …

… to keep processes running smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by … and so one of the things that I think is so special about this collaboration is that we’re doing work in yeast, … and that’s one of these things that we’re really excited about in the future, to see if that’s possible.” Alper and …

… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have never been studied … Using various microscopy techniques, such as hard x-ray tomography, for instance, he visualized entire filaments …

… leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI users.  Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments …

… peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches … to apply the latest molecular techniques to learn more about the microbial communities in the Arthur R. Marshall … northern Everglades in Palm Beach County, and particularly about the microbes that play roles in the methane cycle. …