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… genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … Summary Water temperatures and salinity determine how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … UEC. As a user of the JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, another DOE user facility, she will …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be … genomes available at that time. “Looking across the tree of life, it’s striking how many uncultivated lineages …

… expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … natural products, O’Malley and her team plan to use genetic tools to boost production and isolate the compounds. …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … domain of unknown function.  First, they looked across the tree of life, doing a very complex CTRL+F search for this domain, … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, … adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic lakes, some of which have …

… As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual … in his 25th Anniversary presentation. “Those driven by new tools and those driven by new concepts.” Patrinos went on to … manager in 2006 when the JGI transitioned from human to microbial genetics. Drell held the role until he retired in …

… FY2025 Spending Profile The JGI is funded primarily by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), a program within the DOE Office of Science. …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

… June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health … fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and research results in genomics, metagenomics and the …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great … ” Anna Kucherova : “I got to learn about skills and tools that I’d never done before from my mentors. Also, …

… in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … Schmutz (Cross-field) Susannah Tringe (Microbiology) Tanja Woyke (Biology and Biochemistry, Microbiology) These … and Tanja Woyke, were all instrumental in the development of the Novel Metagenome Protein Families (NMPF) Catalog . …