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… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially … warming is altering how microbes interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. …

… to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna … Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get … the species L. raphanica, which has been able to adapt to habitats from Alabama to Brazil, suggesting that the same decay-related enzymes are useful in a wide range of environments.  Collecting and analyzing these samples was a …

… and secondary metabolites from plants, microorganisms, and environmental samples using targeted and untargeted … Q:  Any advice on normalizing metabolomic data from a whole microbial community, without having cell counts or … A:  We did a pilot experiment with the JGI to look at the variability in the samples and test how many they thought …

… The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … crispiness, only to revive in mere seconds or minutes — a trait that could help improve crop drought resilience. It’s …

… Mr. Rath has been leading the Systems Infrastructure Team at the JGI since 2020. Before joining … it, where necessary, to fit the needs of the dynamic environment that is JGI. Infrastructure built by his team is …