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Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … authors think this might have to do with the differences in lifestyle: honey bees need ample sugar to make honey that …

JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced “you-wren”) of the University of Arizona! They join nine other JGI users …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and …

… to stay informed … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities … systems using advanced experimental and informatic tools at no cost. The JGI and EMSL are supported by the …

… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … The webinar featured  Trent Northen and Ben Bowen of the  JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny … Q:  Any advice on normalizing metabolomic data from a whole microbial community, without having cell counts or …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  … the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass represents one of the largest carbon sinks in the ocean — occupying just …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … them to close relatives who don’t engage in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two …