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… microbial mats at Yellowstone offer researchers an analog for studying early Earth conditions. Additionally, … high-temperature (thermophilic) microbes are of interest for their potential use in number of biotechnological … that runs over the iron-oxide microbial mats at the geyser sites is providing just enough oxygen to the Marsarchaeota. …

… On September 1, JGI held a JGI Engagement: Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications … to submit white papers to the CSP  New Investigator call for proposals.  Tips: Contact us with your questions … to make sure the goals, experimental design, and plan for data utilization are clear. Contact JGI staff for …

… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes … conditions: unburned, low, moderate and high-burn severity sites. From those samples, they reconstructed and examined …

… virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific guidelines and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on … which limits the ability of researchers to accurately perform functional assessment, host prediction, and …

… of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate … the Rauer 1 and Club lakes in East Antarctica and enriched for native microbes. Metagenomes from enrichment cultures … cultured. The researchers then pursued the Nha-C strain for further study, tagging the cells with individual …

… always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … — scientists can better fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy … (Sunny) Liao of the University of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and …

… next generation of STEM professionals. Students can apply for internships and work onsite with an experienced researcher who serves as their … while Oliver Benelli applied through the University of California's  CalTeach initiative. During their time at the …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team … Bifidobacterium  are able to carry out this metabolic feat. For both clades, then, strains are variable in their …

… new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained … rot Serpula lacrymans towards breaking down plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative biofuels and … is typically found in spruce and other conifers in boreal forests. As these trees were harvested for constructing …

… students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training experience funded by a DOE … the supervision of their mentors, they were responsible for all steps of the experiment from growing and inoculating … majoring in Biology at Alabama A&M. And I'm a summer intern for Sharon and Yi. Tamyra Long : Hello, everyone. My name is …

… cycles, and possibly cold-temperature enzymes for biotechnological use. Summary Conditions such as extreme … understand how they’ve adapted to these conditions, information that could have biotechnological applications. The … Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform. These data allowed researchers to define a haloarchaea …

… OnLine Database celebrates 25 years as a vital resource for data contextualization The Science Since its launch 25 … genomic data usage is having the appropriate contextual information, or metadata, stored with them. GOLD provides manually curated metadata resources for organisms and environmental samples. The database …