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… ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental … researchers have been able to gain further insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar … Nanohaloarchaeota were predicted to be capable of autonomous growth because they had larger genome sizes and their …

… carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree … give researchers a way to access much more information about fungi in these environments. “Now with these new tools … soil samples of these varied biomes; the forests share only about 20% of their fungal species. To make useful …

… Research Division. As a postdoc, her research focused on stable and accurate computational methods for … Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a focus on adapting JGI workloads to run on supercomputing … Data Collaborative where she leads infrastructure and user-centered design efforts. Dr. Fagnan was on the …

… Learn more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of … tools developed by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at Berkeley Lab. Presented by Igor Grigoriev, …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it … ocean could fix less carbon when infected. Little is known about virus-infected microbial cells that are transformed … viruses control them through infection, but little is known about the impacts of these infections on ecosystem …

… Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital …

… Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the … Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers.  …

… from plants, microorganisms, and environmental samples using targeted and untargeted approaches. The webinar … would depend on the sample. However, we don’t do this because they typically contain salts and other contaminants that … with metabolomics analysis.  Q: Can you give us an idea about the scale of an average study? How many samples are …

… walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there are soil saprotrophs, which degrade plant detritus. Despite the different modes of nutrition, many of these … in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host and …