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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 …

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 …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! … comparison of 135 fungal sequenced genomes to understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how …

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 …

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 …

…   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 …

As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise …

Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the … V, et al. Reproducible growth of Brachypodium in EcoFAB 2.0 reveals that nitrogen form and starvation modulate root …

Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over … into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've actually captured,” said … the known diversity of microbial genomes in the datasets, however, the team added that this information is still …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are … in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an …