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… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a …

… Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how …

… human lineage. Yet despite their ubiquity and ancient origins, fungi remain largely mysterious. Only about 200,000 …

… Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … protein families and novel functions in as-yet unveiled microbes. Harnessing the collective power of more than … are also incredibly difficult to study. Many of the microbes within them cannot be cultivated in lab settings. …

… between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are … of tens of thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take … temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this extreme …

… analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems function. He was …

… store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the …

… it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their … which microorganisms used the labeled substance and which microbes did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab … them. In this case, scientists identified a wide variety of microbes, including both bacteria and archaea, actively …

… of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of … and in your data, and they’re probably influencing the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group … do anything with a microbiome — you know, target specific microbes or change the behavior of this bacteria — most …

… Computational Sieves to Filter Sequences There are more microbes on the planet than particles in a handful of dirt, and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing technologies and … that infect not just crops, animals and humans, but also microbes whose presence or absence can impact the planet’s …

… Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI …

… microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're …