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… technology could be applied to curbing methane emissions of livestock. Currently, adjusting the diet of animals can help to lower greenhouse gas emissions, however, it’s too costly to … great impact on these algal blooms. So Vardi and his group study one specific alga,  Emiliania huxleyi  (sequenced by …

… Everglades in Palm Beach County, and particularly about the microbes that play roles in the methane cycle. Their data …

… dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques …

… genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. After joining the JGI, he formed the … that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline  that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial …

… in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with … they’re eating was different, and what they’re eating are microbes.   And so that led him to come to me with the …