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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hey there and welcome back for Episode 8 of Natural Prodcast. This week, we have our conversation …

… Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses … Sloan foundation (grant number G-2017-9955), the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia …

… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein identified from their … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 …

… school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … across southern Florida, they encompass a wide range of ecosystems ranging from wetlands to tree islands to … armed with the proper permits, to the refuge to collect soil samples from multiple locations. Back in the classroom, …

… help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … down lignin (think of a fallen, decomposing tree in the forest). Because oxygen is essential to how these fungi … wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of livestock were more capable than …

… The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on …

… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … The webinar featured  Trent Northen and Ben Bowen of the  JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny … researchers worldwide.  Q:  To what extent is natural soil a limit to identify molecules exchanged between plants …

… microbial communities thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study individually. …

… SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit … survive in very hot, high-pressure and chemically-rich ecosystems. This means they hold clues for understanding how …