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… There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, …

… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how genes are regulated is like deciphering the complex wiring behind a city’s power grid. Just as the flow of electricity controls when and where lights turn on or …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 Annual Meeting . The meeting was a hybrid … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … Sloan foundation (grant number G-2017-9955), the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … the interactions that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into … light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, … efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … techniques, the platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples in …