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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In … of water help regulate. However, the microbes also interact with compounds like fertilizers and microplastics that might … Biological and Environmental Research (BER) grants DE-SC0023084, DE-SC0021350, and DE-AC02-05CH11231. Partial support …

… and math (STEM) fields. This summer, they worked with Zhong Wang’s and Tanja Woyke’s groups, respectively. … Internship (SULI) Program students. Sharon Cao worked with Zhong Wang while Karen Tolentino worked with Brachypodium researcher John Vogel. Other students …

… mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based methods in combination with advanced computational analysis.   Overview of … variety of experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types …

… genomes and directly link functional information with individual cells. Research Team    … The JGI uniquely … sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling strategies that allow us to select specific uncultivated microbes for sequencing based on their level of metabolic …

… as impact multipliers . The JGI has a long-term partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology for our Plant Program, and is further leveraging the services of the … Genomics Institute for DNA and RNA extractions to support plant and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE …

… species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But …

… come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are highly capable of breaking …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those …

… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG … need. Karolina is working to better understand what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a …