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… This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to …

… The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a … more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the …

… Institute of Science’s Assaf Vardi, who delved into algae blooms and the alga-viral interactions within them; … on Earth,” Weizmann explained.   These algae take up carbon dioxide and emit oxygen and other gasses — some of … you all know,” Vardi shared. Crucial for the global carbon cycle, photosynthetic phytoplankton do not operate alone. …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … of microbes that play key roles in global biogeochemical cycles remains unexplored and uncultivated. Developing a … group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in North Sea algal blooms. The workflow starts by tagging …

… and released by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) are subject to the following Data Policy. It … by those generating data. The JGI Data Policy applies to research data and analysis products (referred to as “data” for … Embargo : A period in which data is not publicly available in JGI systems or …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … stages. But I think that is emblematic of some of the research that you’ve been doing the last couple of years. And … begun diving when I was a teenager, about 15. I grew up in Northern California. And we’d go down to Monterey, in the …

… have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …