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… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  … Work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was conducted …

… Learn more about JGI’s  PhycoCosm data portal , an interactive … again how did you pick genomes to be on the genomes portal? For the taxa I work on, there are 7 genomes on NCBI but your … A: Combination of: DOE mission relevance Science User community – trying to produce resources for large groups of …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing … in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: …

… Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; [middle] … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other … . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme conditions. The …

… The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of … Understanding the genetic underpinnings responsible for these traits takes us closer to harnessing algae for … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for …

… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and … Podcasts ,  Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts) Microbial ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been …

… Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life … Matt also supports various CSP and FICUS user projects for the Metagenome Program. …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like …