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… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the juicy proteins and lipids that eukaryotes are.” But according to a …

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed …

American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project … The class discovered Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of bacteria …

In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M … DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI … mutants to observe and investigate how transporter proteins regulate the production of root exudates, which …

Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research Division.. As a postdoc, her research focused …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is … the team then used DNA synthesis and cloning, followed by protein in vitro expression and mass spectrometry-based …