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They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their survival secrets could one day help other organisms … are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how … research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: …

… series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running …

… make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in … To overcome this hurdle, a team led by Bernhard Fuchs and his postdoctoral researcher Anissa Grieb at the MPI …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. … by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary … that allow the organisms to adapt to and control their environment. Many secondary metabolites are produced …

To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … leaving potential targets for crop engineering untouched. Research recently published in  The Proceedings of … 25, and eukaryotes having slightly larger numbers due to their expanded metabolisms. These ATs can operate in a …

… metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell genomics by collecting nearly … from a single low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that single cell genomics can add …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science … how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants … also shows the younger meadows in the Atlantic ocean are much less diverse than their Pacific Ocean ancestors — …

Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being … The microbes that play key roles in cycling nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated by viruses in their environments. Environmental DNA sequencing can help …

… transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the fungus’ tissue. If you’re a Marvel Comics fan, …

… mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, … hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … Huberiarchaeum would help fill in metabolic weaknesses. In such cases, these DPANN hitchhikers likely form a mutualistic …