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… Seshadri. Writing the  Nature   Reviews column all started with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  … Du Toit, senior editor for  Nature Reviews Microbiology, with an unusual opportunity: would JGI researchers consider … the column had been written solely by scientists affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK — a nonprofit …

… multi-terabyte datasets assembled for the first time with  MetaHipMer , taking advantage of scalable parallel …

… a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue … Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study … how to improve soil health can help mitigate the effects of climate change. The team’s study used samples from the area …

… carbon dioxide concentrations and thereby affect climate. The protein itself could actually help promote soil … can have a significant impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light … auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) that have nothing to do with a virus’ primary focus — replicating itself.  Chitin is …

… lead on PNNL’s Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological … in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI on five user projects with the JGI, as well as served on review panels for the JGI …

… researchers investigated the role that bacteria living within a host (endosymbionts) have on fungal host … was predicted to have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . … transition occurs. Rhizopus is a fungal pathogen of crops, including candidate bioenergy feedstocks sunflower, …

… of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only … the researchers insights into how they might interact with their hosts, and how those interactions may in turn … in the uptake and transport of diverse substrates, and also photosynthesis genes including potential light-driven proton …

… case studies, JGI scientific users share how they’ve worked with the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program, which started in … analysis of specialized metabolism in bioenergy crops: current progress and challenges , details how an … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… and recaps of all three keynote talks follow, starting with Bruce Hungate. Other videos of talks from the JGI … interested in microbes with the potential to impact global climate change, he said. “To understand the trajectory of climate change, we need to understand the ecology of those …

… many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). He completed this work with collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as … acids and proteins, as well as recycling nitrogen. Now, with insight into a specific enzyme class that’s important …

… such tools has been a collaborative effort. For example, with support from the  Exascale Computing Project , the JGI — along with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing … surveys could lead to better predictive models of global climate. They may also provide a basic understanding of the …

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