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…   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to … The Impact Despite constituting less than 5% of land on Earth, peatlands store approximately one-third of the … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …

… infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … project. For this project, RNA sequencing was done by the JGI, and proteomics and metabolomics analysis and microscopy …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase protein … using high-brightness X-rays.  This study only begins to unearth the insights to be found within soil viruses and AMGs. …

… incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… assembly and analysis Overview of biodesign products The JGI Biodesign platform enables users to validate hypotheses … develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program.    Representative software … and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …

… exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set …

… S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Through multi-platform stories and outreach efforts, … the team aims to broaden awareness of and access to JGI public resources and the DOE mission, as well as help … narratives for diverse audiences. In her prior role as a JGI communications specialist, she served as the primary …

… to the deep ocean, cold environments occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the … focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in winter months, when sunlight is nonexistent, the bacteria are … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. … polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and research …