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… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems … State University and colleagues aim to understand how soil microbiomes in fire-adapted ecosystems respond to low and …

… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on the … Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help researchers better understand the …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … co-founder Axel Visel and UC Merced Quantitative Systems Biology professor Carolin Frank reflected on the past … a teaching assistant for the UC Merced Quantitative and Systems Biology department.   Jonelle Basso , a JGI research …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … to access the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. For example, the team has since identified  … The work (proposal:  10.46936/10.25585/60000717 ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … for injecting a solution that bolsters the immune system of oaks and enables them to fend off the effects of …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … of which were shared with previous studies in the same system. With the right functional characterization, those … This work focused on a relatively well-understood model system, so future directions will also include targeting …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … research, written skill, above all else, determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome … said. “Fungi play an important role in the earth’s ecosystem,” said Salamov, one of Wint’s mentors and a data …

… JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven … species and studying diversity in complex biological systems. By making the tools and data available through … traits from genomic data to understand how biological systems produce and manage energy. By advancing the JGI’s …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as … fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary …

… The Science Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, and researchers are interested in learning how … microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic … are available through JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform. These data allowed researchers …

… Program (ETOP) , researchers have developed and improved upon a tool that combines existing DNA sequence binning … contributions, is key to understanding their ecosystem functions in processes ranging from nutrient cycling to … by the Banfield lab in collaboration with the JGI), human microbiomes, natural oil seeps in Santa Barbara, Calif., and …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … LanzaTech to develop a “cell-free” gene expression system. Developed through the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to test enzymatic pathways, which …