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… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved … enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month … In the last few months, the Sustainable Garden Club has organized lunchtime gardening sessions to plant succulents … Members from across Berkeley Lab gathered to learn more about planting and tending these shoots of their own. The …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could … they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. … to viral lineages, and predominantly in samples from marine (55%) and freshwater (40%) environments. As a result, …

… the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. … a similar single-cell genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His …

… snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little about where to collect the California Cone Snail  …

… in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of … Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and before … Northwest National Laboratory. Letters of Intent are due March 16, 2022 to freely access resources at multiple DOE …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and unknown. The challenge remains to learn more about what microbes are present in any given … of potential applications to industrial processes. Summary JGI researchers developed a function-driven, …

… Research Division. As a postdoc, her research focused on stable and accurate computational methods for … Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a focus on adapting JGI workloads to run on supercomputing … and user-centered design efforts. Dr. Fagnan was on the organizing committees for the ASCR Integrated Research …

… The Science In a recent Microbiome paper , scientists focused on the conifer needle microbiome. The phyllosphere, … pine, Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce–to learn more about conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what … revealed through their diverse genomic capabilities. Summary In a project supported by the JGI Community Science …

… both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its roots are akin … fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary To interrogate the close partnership of endophyte  M. … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … ones, a trend that threatens to destabilize the delicate marine food web and change the oceans as we know them. At … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. …