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… 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 …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome … Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Center, along with researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute, 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 … Livermore National Laboratory was conducted under the auspices of the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. …

… 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 … grants W911NF-09–D-0001 and W911NF-19-2-0026 (MAO), US Army Research Office contract W911NF-19-1-0010 (MAO), …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal … geomics and PhycoCosm portal. Dr. Grigoriev engaged thousands of researchers in genome projects and organized numerous genomics workshops. … Algal Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …

… 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 …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a … can have a significant impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light … Research (BER) and is a contribution of the Scientific Focus Area “Phenotypic response of the soil microbiome to …

… hours.   FY 2025 DOE Metrics There were 2,627 unique* JGI users in FY2025 , which includes Principal Investigators (PIs), Co-PIs, and collaborators. *Unique users are counted once, even though an individual may have … DOE Quarterly Metrics Q1 – Report on new computational developments for improving microbial, metagenomic, or plant …