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… user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular techniques. The FICUS program is designed to …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  … the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass represents one of the largest carbon sinks in the ocean — occupying just …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … avenues for using bacteria to produce ethylene and more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of …

… PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic substances has led … (ERD.) It is dependent on the presence of the existing microbes in the groundwater and adjusting the environmental …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in … working on his post-doctoral position with the Plant and Microbe Interaction group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … nitrogen-metabolizing enzymes are abundant, and to which microbes they belong. This study provides further insights … picture of microbial genes in the soil and to which type of microbe they belonged. The team worked with the U.S. …

… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples … conditions. Additionally, high-temperature (thermophilic) microbes are of interest for their potential use in number … may have been important to the early evolution of these microbes. …

… 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 … . They looked for genes known to be involved in fungal-host interactions and identified 84 gene families that were …

… to other methods. The Impact Understanding how individual microbes interact with each other in a community, and … been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this … members and their genome-encoded metabolic capabilities and interactions. Supported by JGI’s ETOP, this new tool will …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … plant and algal functional genomics, inter-organismal interactions, understanding natural communities important …