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Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of …

National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at … Cell . 25: 11, 4305-4323. 2013 Blaby et. al., Experimental evolution of a facultative thermophile from a mesophilic … Award for Research Excellence … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with … phenotype and genotype of fermentative prokaryotes on IMG … Publication … Datasets … Datasets … Datasets …

SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … important to understand early life, but also to link the evolution of this metabolism to geochemical data, which in …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … The DOE has been similarly invested in environmental management, contributing to bioremediation efforts for …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … Grant-In-Aid of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award to S.B.C.; NSF DEB-1239992 to …