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… to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  … Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …

… genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed … characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to … in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt levels change …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … Williams and mentors Igor Grigoriev and Bishoy Kamel, A Comparative Analysis of Metabolic Pathways in Fungal …

… 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  … the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass represents one of the largest carbon sinks in the ocean — occupying just …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained …

… further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and …