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… interactions within them; and Susan Wessler of UC Riverside, who discussed her work on transposable elements … on Earth,” Weizmann explained.   These algae take up carbon dioxide and emit oxygen and other gasses — some of … you all know,” Vardi shared. Crucial for the global carbon cycle, photosynthetic phytoplankton do not operate alone. …

… it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their … which microorganisms used the labeled substance and which microbes did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab … Soil microorganisms play a critical role in sequestering carbon and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and …

… evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by … they all process loads of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able … . In an herbivore’s poop sample, there’s a whole heap of microbes, each potentially contributing to powerful biomass …

… advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes can be used to create compounds more efficiently … bacterial strains as part of the Community Science Program (CSP)  Functional Genomics proposal call. …

… 2018-present Member, EcoFAB steering committee 2014-present …

… stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on … floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao …

… genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial manufacturing.  … genomic complexity can accelerate the design-build-test cycle for metabolic engineering. The discovery that …

… transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a … for bioenergy crops. And because lichens are dominant carbon and nitrogen fixers in alpine and high latitude … mechanisms can help researchers better model global carbon and nitrogen cycling. Summary To shed light on …

… for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A … to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and characterize … of microbes that play key roles in global biogeochemical cycles remains unexplored and uncultivated. Developing a …

… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one …