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… There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, … light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at …

… chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under … users can leverage to create a more complete picture of how microbes control useful chemistry in other organisms.  … the power of combining multiple omics methods to decode how microbes control chemical production. These efforts support …

… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s … Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI …

… microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're … SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. … ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been sampling microbes at Lake Mendota, which borders the University of … Mendota data set, illuminating not just the highly-abundant microbes we expect to see, but also low-abundance …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … has identified the major metabolic roles of constituent microbes, publishing their findings in the  Proceedings of … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a … saw populations shift. Smaller picoplankton and free-living microbes that can fix carbon dioxide replaced organic matter …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon … oxidation. The findings lead them to speculate that these microbes could use the same pathway for either sulfur …