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… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my … it to such a large data set, but also went all the way through to convert her biological observations into a …

… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … (Berkeley Lab), as part of Hallam’s approved proposal through the Community Science Program . The proposal focuses … preliminary model aligns with several other studies on the potential effects of warming oceans on the microbial …

… 21-23, 2023, attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting.  A wide array of invited … Hungate has gotten more interested in microbes with the potential to impact global climate change, he said. “To … Annual Meeting, Holmes discussed how to use genomics and metagenomics to better understand what is called the “virus …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to … mark, these algae showed significant signs of recovery through increased nutrient uptake and decreased cell death.  …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … cycles that fuel the planet, and viruses control them through infection, but little is known about the impacts of … and The Ohio State University’s Matt Sullivan used an experimental approach with a marine phage-host model to …

… Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and … 1. Q(uestion): How much DNA is required for the JGI SIP metagenomics pipeline? A(nswer):  The more the better. We … a plant that’s in a very active growth phase, it would take potentially less time than a plant that’s beginning to go …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … that eschew culturing, painting a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic sequencing. A team … the virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for …

… data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the … managed through human intervention. By leveraging metagenomics, scientists were able to analyze the DNA of … our understanding of plant-microbe interactions — with potential applications in sustainable forestry and …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … that viruses are more abundant than previously thought, and potentially even more abundant than bacteria. A fourth …