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Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable … in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea … fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) of the University … Berkeley Lab. Moreover, follow-up meetings, agreements on exchange of materials and samples as well as research visits …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who … also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant …

The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions … involved? How long does it take to do all the analyses? A:  For the JGI  New Investigator and  Functional Genomics … what extent is natural soil a limit to identify molecules exchanged between plants and microbiomes during interactions? …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? … to make products such as proteins, and the mechanisms for maintenance to keep processes running smoothly. As … for the past year and a half, “the logistics haven’t changed,” noted Northwestern graduate student Blake Rasor. …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest …

New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. … Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate …

Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools … (1996) … List available on Google Scholar … Education … Publications …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …