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… two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … which mostly resides in the bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  …

Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep … workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make use of it, it would change the …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times … plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat …

… technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of … sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the …

Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … JGI researcher, Zhong Wang, have adjunct faculty positions with the SNS, and Wang’s group was hosting another QSB …

… was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint appointment with … the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two … Photobiont and fungus (mycobiont) live intertwined, with the photobiont transferring part of its …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial …