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… a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi … and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned … a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds …

… years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes …

… strains. (Blake Rasor) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to make … environment, which would be transformative at industrial scales. “Cell-free systems have been really powerful at … per Liter-hour in a system optimized for developing small-scale prototypes. Additionally, the team also used a similar …

… wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls … (IMG/M) database, they successfully crafted the Novel Metagenome Protein Families (NMPF) Catalog.  “We can now … there has been no real analysis of protein families from metagenomes per se.”  Recently, other research teams have …

… were: Simon Roux and Matthew Kellom for the JGI Metagenome Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for … 12, 2022. Faculty interested in developing proposals with JGI and Biosciences Area researchers should contact …

… to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life had found other ways to … form of metabolism, researchers recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, … also used the tool to predict possible functions from 733 metagenome-assembled rumen genomes. Finally, they used the …

… — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for this project, and produced the … Grigoriev, Fungal Genomics Program Head at the JGI.  Along with an improved understanding of multiple forest systems, …

… EMSL such as DNA-SIP, Protein SIP, Flux Balance analysis with metabolites, Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry, NanoSIMS, … so you’d need at least 2 micrograms in the sample to start with. 2. Q: What would a typical turnaround time be for data … want to call it. But NanoSIMS can do that at a really fine scale, and we can also easily measure the 15N at the bulk …

… the diversity of plants. To put this evolutionary timescale in perspective, the genus Aspergillus has been … written in a yet-to-be-deciphered language. Researchers with the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute … Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations …

… being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral …

… .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national efforts to promote and stimulate a … community with advanced genomic capabilities, large scale data, and professional expertise while responsibly … leveraging laboratory and computational technologies at scale, improving connectivity across the DOE data ecosystem, …

… JGI’s User Programs. “Many of these projects are large in scale and involve multiple collaborators, bringing together … awardee.  The CSP Annual call is focused on large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office … You can learn more about this call, as well as our smaller-scale New Investigator and Functional Genomics calls, here …