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… cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary …
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… change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the … aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of … period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study recently published in Microbiome shows that the way …
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To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the … Communication Manager Sarah Sharman recently interviewed study first author Avinash Sreedasyam, a HudsonAlpha senior … studies. We also looked at the cross-species comparable study, where plants were subjected to three nitrogen sources …
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Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly eukaryotic origins were … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the …
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Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … characterizing the human microbiome by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal RNA gene censuses. Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh , Metagenome Program lead, shone a spotlight on ammonia …
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Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the … to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University … the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …
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High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in … labor and improve results. Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel …
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The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and … Schulz, New Lineages of Life Lead Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Metagenome Program Tanja Woyke, Microbial Program Robert …
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… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples … The researchers then pursued the Nha-C strain for further study, tagging the cells with individual fluorescent probes. …
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JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription factors that control how genes are … be used by itself, it can also serve as a stepping stone to studying many genomes simultaneously through multiDAP, which …
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… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and senior author of the study. “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the …
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… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of … sequence data generated over the past three decades, their study assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we … genes on nearly 2 million genomes, including isolates, metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) with varying quality …
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