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… — worse, they didn’t even know how big the room is. A new study published online Oct. 11, 2023 in Nature highlights … new functions,” said Nikos Kyrpides , senior author of the study and head of the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group . … Microbial communities are also incredibly difficult to study. Many of the microbes within them cannot be cultivated …
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… Impact This dataset gives researchers a new foundation for studying how fungi produce and manage energy at the cellular … that predict biological traits from DNA sequences. The study also confirmed that mitochondrial and nuclear … genes as reliable markers for classifying species and studying diversity in complex biological systems. By making …
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… team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial …
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… who led the research team and is the head of the Viral Genomics group at the JGI, thinks that if you’re a virus or a … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics … without harming the rest of the microbial community. The study’s publicly available dataset gives researchers the …
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… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee Call, Stephen … every aspect of our daily lives. But for researchers who study viruses that infect organisms much smaller than … some of the current challenges faced by those using metagenomics to try to understand the far-reaching impacts of …
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… learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic lakes, some … across East Antarctica. The implications of the current study are important both to understanding genomic variation … microbial ecologist Rick Cavicchioli and his team have been studying the haloarchaea that thrive in the very salty …
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… Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served as a Research … 116 (52) 27124-27132 Sasse, et. al.J. 2019 Multilab EcoFAB study shows highly reproducible physiology and depletion of … 8(1), 2184 doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02292-8 Genetics and Genomics of Brachypodium. 2016 Vogel, J.P. Ed., Springer, …
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… JGI collaborator, are senior authors of the recent study published in The Plant Journal. this study included the discovery of candidate genes that confer … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …
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… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four … SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 … SAR324 is able to influence this carbon pool. Summary To study the lifestyles of SAR324, lead author Dominique Boeuf …
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… The Impact The specific protein described in a recent study in Nature Communications , a chitosanase, is tied to … on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light on hidden components, … within soil. So, the chitosanase protein identified in the study is essentially chewing food to help microorganisms …
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… data and expertise to the global research community to study complex biological and environmental systems. The … Centers. He is currently also working with the JGI Metabolomics Program. Having served on JGI, DOE, and NSF review and … His current research focuses on the evolution, ecology, genomics and function of microbes and microbiomes, especially …
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… changes. Summary Researchers have been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the …
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