Search

… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 … sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of …

… US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (Berkeley Lab’s) core values, which guide the relationships we nurture in our workplace and seek to establish … The UEC represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and …

… This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … to harvest all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro and  in vivo … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems … the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes … interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated plots and …

… Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting … Agricultural Lands Changes Nitrogen Cycling Microbial Communities and Reduces N2O Production Potential in … controls of nitrous oxide pulses in rewetted forest soils: An integrated -omic and isotopic approach” 12:39pm …

… Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …

… Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in … characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal RNA gene …

… proposals have been accepted from 70 full submissions based on 92 letters of intent. Additionally, 40 percent … call. Richard Dick of The Ohio State University aims to study plant drought resilience in the Sahel, an arid region … Their presence reduces the need to add fertilizers to the soil. diCenzo’s proposal is also notable as he had an …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts … serve as reaction chambers, and also allows them to test composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  … can be further explored for novel functions. In the current study, the team combined the CETCH cycle with a …