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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US … that the microbes in these bodies of water help regulate. However, the microbes also interact with compounds like … that might be added to the water along the way, impacting its quality and in turn affecting environmental and human …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to … with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the … they managed to enter the host cell. DGRs could prove to be powerful tools not only for viruses and other microbes , but …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … poplar, a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. Having this first genome sequence of a …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … fungi by James et al. and Sekimoto et al . In both studies, however, Olpidium was unexpectedly grouped with … genetic material with various origins, ranging from fungi, plants to bacteria. Back in 2011 when these genome and …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … Bigelow Lab led to the identification of key microbial culprits in carbon fixation in the dark ocean. Combining single …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint … BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees … galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives … … Volland et al. 2022. A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA contained in metabolically active, membrane-bound …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change … The Blob, researchers developed a preliminary model of how marine microbial communities are affected by warming … colleagues collected more than 270 water samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water samples were sequenced by the …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and … deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing data gathered from whole samples rather than … difficult to assemble and interpret. The workshop aimed to showcase how researchers are utilizing deep learning to …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not … researchers have been able to gain further insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The … region in the SPEARE proteins appears to be involved in DNA degradation, and these proteins may be directly involved …

…   The JGI is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research … dam removal to Antarctica’s photosynthetic mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and contribute to global …