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… The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the … underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of … of California, Berkeley aims to redesign and engineer algae by identifying the algal regulators that could boost lipid … how soil microbiomes in fire-adapted ecosystems respond to low and high severity wildfire.  Eight of the approved …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for … , JGI’s deputy of User Programs. “The proposed research by these PIs will address a broad diversity of important … and bioproducts production, global carbon and nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. You can learn more about this …

… Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research … novel functions that may impact microbiome structure and biogeochemical cycles. He provides his expertise to the JGI … protists. These approaches enable novel insights into the diversity and important ecological roles of microeukaryotes …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial … twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have wondered, how … two ecotypes, on the other hand, thrive in the dark, below 200 m (656 ft). They have genes supporting a …

… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. The work was led … a whole community is impossible.  Metagenomic sequencing allows researchers to study the entire genetic makeup of these …