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As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … like antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, and novel enzymes that function at low temperature.” said Katrin Schmidt, co-lead …

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 to the development of cost-effective environmental cleanup strategies. Summary …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The … cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other … show the ability to respire with or without oxygen, fix nitrogen, and break down organic and inorganic compounds. …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … flower size, and confer stress tolerance traits. Given the importance of polyploidy in plants, researchers have sought … after polyploidization,” said John Vogel, head of the Plant Functional Genomics program at the JGI and a senior author …

Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic … (scRNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics). … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 2006) … List of pubs available on NCBI … Implementation of the Index of …

Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years … evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by …

Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a … Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the …