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… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … for Industrial Microbiology Natural Products conference that was held last January. Ben was the organizing chair of that conference, and he and the conveners put on a great …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent … first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from genes to …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant … studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform hydrogenotrophic … applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …

See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, and Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science calls. These …

As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise multiple organisms: a … When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help them take the heat. …

Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As … elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

… growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in defense, nutrient … compounds are key to organisms' interactions with their environments and with each other, from defending against … to facilitate the discovery of new bio-based molecules that can drive innovations in bioenergy, sustainable …

The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around … to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  about 3 million … occupy the regions where eelgrass flourishes. The plant can thrive in both frigid and tropical climates, growing off the …