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… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … are.” But according to a new study published September 16, 2021 in Nature Communications , warmer waters and …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at … in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … National Laboratory was conducted under the auspices of the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The work …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The … and female sexes. For the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program (DEB-1542509 to S.D., DEB-1542486 to …

… been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this … of the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program in 2013, a team of researchers has been working on improving … to high (596 genomes) complexity. The environmental datasets included metagenomic data from Crystal Geyser in …

… Since 2018, Mr. Wilson has served as the Systems Engineering Group … and supporting applications that span the lifecycle of activities at JGI - proposal submission and review, … automated sequence quality control and automation of microbial/metagenomic assemblies, portals that make data …

… studies.  This conference is inspired by the vision of standardized fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs) designed for precise manipulation and reproducible … the future of microbiome science. Organizers The EcoFAB 2025 Conference is organized by the EcoFAB Steering …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … Fungal Datasets …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …

… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a … activity in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse environments and grouped …

…   On November 3, 2021, the JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … and Katherine Louie for the JGI Metabolomics Platform Blake Simmons for The BioManufactory Completed VFP …