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… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of the ocean simply signals we’re near the beach. For …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, contributed metagenomic sequencing to the study as well as  genome …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other … that enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of …

… PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … bioremediate toxic substances has led to the development of cost-effective environmental cleanup strategies. Summary … Science Program , they were able to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on …

… Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and … 1. Q(uestion): How much DNA is required for the JGI SIP metagenomics pipeline? A(nswer):  The more the better. We want to put at least a microgram of DNA in the tube so you’d need at least 2 micrograms in …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … His group also handles the Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline  that reveals in situ functional …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … been co-cultivated with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and … More than 50,000 copies of the MCP were identified in the metagenomic data, two-thirds of which could be assigned to …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of … forms the basis of their behavior in the environment. Large metagenomic surveys could lead to better predictive models …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental United States. They …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … of enzymes.” Gribaldo will be speaking on “Exploration of Metagenomic Data to Understand the Diversity and Evolution …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …