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… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how …

… MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance and multicellularity enabled …

… Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National … exogenous nutrient supply to trigger its fruiting remains unknown. To interpret the mechanisms fulfilling nutritional … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … on thiolases, a superfamily of enzymes found only in microbes, which make carbon-carbon bonds. This ability is …

… 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, …

… Learn more about JGI’s  PhycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics … your Tree ever differ from NCBI Taxonomy? A(nswer): If you find that our trees are incorrect or need to be changed, please contact us and we’ll work work it out 2.  …

… highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI …

… Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're …

… On February 8, 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory hosted a webinar to showcase how researchers can gain access to the … Q(uestion) 1: Can researchers perform suggested treatments in the NEON sampling points? A(nswer): Michael SanClements …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper … colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes interact with their environment, potentially …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led … AB in Physics, Princeton University, NJ MS in Theoretical Physics, Cornell University, NY PhD in … Publications … Award, National Cotton Council 2009 Friday Evening Lecturer, Marine Biological Laboratory 2000 John Simon …