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The CSP New Investigator Call is for investigators and research … initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be independent of ongoing JGI proposals, and lead PIs cannot have been lead … projects will provide pilot data to assess feasibility of a novel approach or form the foundation for a large-scale …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … was just beginning to develop and expand into the world of evolutionary biology. And around that time, a collaborative … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … to providing a more detailed timeline of eelgrass’s evolution, the study also shows the younger meadows in the … locations.  One group investigated changes in protein sequences, while others analyzed single point mutations …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria …

… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a …