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… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … methanogens were, but they were discovered by genome sequencing, which is a much less biased approach to studying … two enzymes.” These microbes are specialized to use very specific types of substrates for methanogenesis, and cannot …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … these microbes are equipped to do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community … contributed. Additionally, some bacterial groups were quite specific to certain hosts, such as the Hymenobacter on …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …

… Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now … our near- and long-term goals. And, by the way, as far as sequencing goes, the JGI’s next petabase will likely be …

… fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha … updated to a high quality modern standard and includes RNA-seq data. The improved  T. cacao Matina 1-6 genome is now …

… The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities dedicated to … Click to view a downloadable copy of the sponsor prospectus … Keynote Speakers Jim Collins Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kristala Prather Massachusetts Institute of …

… campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this symposium is to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” … uncultivated viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore … be held on Nov. 18 in the Tilden room and open-air patio of the same building.  The symposium will include a mix of …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … potential ," is among the five focused on tool development. Specifically, the goal of this work is to develop tools, … collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … After isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the …