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… dedication event of the Integrative Genomics Building—the new home of the JGI and KBase in the heart of the Lab’s … the intricate move preparations, the JGI has released its newest 5-Year Strategic Plan: Beyond Basepairs — A Vision … Biological and Environmental Research (BER), among others. New areas of emphasis, for those who are already familiar …

… 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 …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

… of the bacteria potentially holds the key to discovering new antiviral medicines and treatments for infectious … and the focus of a  recent paper published in  Microbial Genomics .   “Studying actinomyces, especially …

… how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …

… 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 …

… team responsible for piloting and operationalizing new genomic technologies, integrating automated liquid … Graham, Ramon Huerta, Ryan Johnson, and Lev Tsimring. "Microbial microfluidic biosensor." U.S. Patent 11,209,412, …

… called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … can whip up dozens of complex natural products, including new ones. The Impact In the past, natural products have been … biofuels. This work shows that anaerobic fungi might be a new source of novel compounds to help bolster the …

… of biology and computer science, to reveal clues about how microbial and bacteria communities influence the … Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial communities mediate Sphagnum peatmoss resilience to warming . New Phytol. 2022 Jun;234(6):2111-2125. doi: …