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… to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and … as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in … HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, …

I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person meetings were … features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a group of plants in the Agave family with fleshy, sword-like … their edges. KAROLINA : My work with the JGI focuses on a group of plants called yuccas. If you know Joshua Tree, …

… workshops, data carpentry hackathons, and also made new friends while working on their summer projects. Watch … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great meeting …

… from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias …

… photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … an average surface temperature of about 58° Fahrenheit (14° Celsius) — a cool intermediate to the ocean’s extremes of … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the …

Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which … reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

… in more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more … moved to a lower-salinity environment with how a control group responded when moved to an environment of comparable … the adaptive mechanisms of Arctic microalgae but also opens new avenues for utilizing these organisms in sustainable …

June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop …

Nandita is involved in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and …

Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a …

Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic … microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in name first … viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any given time. …