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David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in … on Intensive Agricultural Lands Changes Nitrogen Cycling Microbial Communities and Reduces N2O Production Potential … stable isotope approaches for resolving nitrogen transformations in the critical zone” 8:03am Convention Center …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  … things like biomass and  biofuels . However, AMF and the microbial communities they inhabit are notoriously difficult …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which … reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical … publicly available data in the JGI’s  IMG/M database , information the Probst lab used to search for and find 13 …

Find a series of webinars related to our Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes portal. …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who … and management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and … has changed our understanding of the microbiome and the microbial sciences field. Roux will be recognized at the …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria … these distractions. Combining genome and transcriptome information allowed the team to have a much more comprehensive …