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… DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell … First and foremost, our interview this week is with Professor Brian Bachmann from Vanderbilt University’s … was less nutrients but enough that you had a lot of biodiversity. So we choose environments that are close enough …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their … the crust, there is a vast ecosystem connected to the global carbon cycle. Archaea are key players in this deep …

… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a … their predicted functional and metabolic roles across global metagenomes (within IMG).  The Impact The initial …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact on global carbon cycling and climate is estimated to be larger … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play … the JGI Algal Program, which explores genomics of algal diversity and biology to support basic science as well as …

… JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced … noted, “I would also like to offer my insights in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in STEM disciplines to …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and … the vast majority of microbes that play key roles in global biogeochemical cycles remains unexplored and …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite, as well as sequences from the Global Ocean Virome 2.0 dataset based on open ocean samples. …

… Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual …

… genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed … tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity of microbial enzymes, which could have a plethora … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia … of plants.  Pangenomes encompass a plant’s genetic diversity beyond a single reference genome, which is key to …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular … Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using …