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… ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered … were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  … are bacteria that act like tiny natural engineers with special skills to break down pollutants and recycle …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental tendencies The Science The  Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes … Tool …

… The JGI is excited to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User … (FICUS) program for fiscal year 2026, in partnership with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria … and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue …

… portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using 5,000 images of crystalized … can have a significant impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light …

… user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have … features prominently among the eleven proposals selected with four focused on biofuels and bioproducts. For example, … user facilities work with the researchers to assess their needs and help them with their methodologies, experiments …

… at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced in every corn variety and … have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a … Plants that the zealexin pathway has an “hourglass” shape with diverse precursors in, and many different products out, …

… (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at their joint meeting! “Empowering Automated Laboratories: Integrating Experimentation with Data” was held at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront in … of Science national scientific user facilities dedicated to advancing research in bioenergy and environmental …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that … nearly five million barrels of light crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley …

… of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, … Cristhian Gutierrez-Huerta (Major: Applied Math; Faculty Mentor: Dr. Zhong Wang) Victoria Arias (Major: Applied Math; … receive from our faculty.” Cristhian and Bryan interned with Zhong Wang and Tanja Woyke, respectively. Both of their …

… Research Institute, the 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial … cycles and beyond, as well as microbial symbioses. We aim to foster discussions centered on how to capture, define, …

… head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes …