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… Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers … , information the Probst lab used to search for and find 13 additional predicted viral  genomes . The team dubbed …

… 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 nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process … As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this …

… Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years evolving tactics against potential threats. …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a … an organism’s fitness. Moreover, the discovery of more than 30,000 DGRs in this analysis, a 20-fold increase over what …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … carbon is stored in peatlands, which make up nearly 3 percent of the earth’s land surface. In the New …

… BS – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Chemical Engineering Ph. D. – … 2024 Berkeley Lab Recognition of Excellence Award 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab … NIH K25 Mentored Career Development awardee 1998-2003: NSF Graduate research training fellowship in biomolecular …

… 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 … great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing …

… chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the … Summary Most Streptomyces species can produce roughly 30 secondary metabolites — chemical compounds not required …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … The work is supported by NIH Common Fund grant 1U01DE034196-01. The JGI team, including Kyrpides, Camargo, and …

… Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … Schadt stepped into the UEC chair role effective March 3; Lizzy Wilbanks assumed the vice chair role while Kristen …