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… to a type of archaea called  Euryarchaeota . These ancient, single-celled organisms thrive in most  environments devoid of … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in hard-to-reach places that …

Korea as well as a faculty affiliate in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of Lawrence Berkeley … FastTree and identified 62 distinct AT groups. However, no single AT group was conserved across all species — a …

As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the … opened vast windows into specific activities catalyzed by microbial communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with … this was the first workshop of its kind on SIP metagenomics,” Malmstrom said.  Increasingly, efforts like these …

… green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …

… automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  … things like biomass and  biofuels . However, AMF and the microbial communities they inhabit are notoriously difficult … an arduous wet lab process. Typically, after incubating microbial communities with labeled food or water, the …

… highlighting the fact that the genetic information in a single reference genome is insufficient. “We really have to … said John Vogel, head of the Plant Functional Genomics program at the JGI and a senior author on the … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains plant cell walls, which have complex, branching chains of … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly … datasets becoming available but also complementary single-cell sorting and sequencing of viruses together with their …