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… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … but they’re not always immediately apparent. Similarly, the microbes found in plant roots may have unknown roles. Some …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related … UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … has a number of applications, including pain relief. The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental … and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play …

… 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, … the OGG. For a long time, C-fern has served as a model for studying ferns and for teaching plant biology. It is typical …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and … The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … on thiolases, a superfamily of enzymes found only in microbes, which make carbon-carbon bonds. This ability is …

… Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The … Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon …

… Specializing in mass spectrometry-centered projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and integrating mathematics and chemistry for … BS – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Chemical Engineering Ph. D. – Arizona State University, Tempe, Chemical …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes can be used to create compounds more efficiently …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … who also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … These days, Session is starting his lab at Binghamton “studying polyploids and transposon evolution, expanding on …