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Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not … microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on … Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as build their … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, …

… is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not …

… from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … products have been an important source of antibiotics. Indeed, these anaerobic fungi may be using these compounds for …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other … . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … Chloroflexota lost when they returned to an ocean home. A deeper understanding of how these bacteria evolved could …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it comes to nutrient cycling in polar … occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the microbial activity that dominates …

… the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental and energy challenges. … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. … The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a …