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… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … expressing, the team sequenced their RNA transcripts. All sequencing was done through the JGI Community Science …

… National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at University of Florida and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of … algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to developing a deeper understanding of sequence-based gene function. …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … Chloroflexota lost when they returned to an ocean home. A deeper understanding of how these bacteria evolved could … organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of … sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome required a custom …

… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading … and optimized by Ronan O’Malley, who leads the JGI’s Sequencing Technologies group. DAP-seq allowed the team to …

… 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 … This was facilitated in part by RNA library preparation and sequencing from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… 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 … One example, published in Nature , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” … in metagenomics and novel applications for long-read DNA sequencing. As a UEC member, Wilbanks will advocate for …

… PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. Applying genome sequencing and analysis, the researchers identified other … amount of what’s allowed in drinking water. However, in the deeper sites, toxic chemicals remain.  To identify the …

… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples collected … discovered and characterized a novel phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office …

… communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … catalyzed by microbial communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with tracings of stable, heavy isotopes, SIP allows researchers to go … (BER) missions. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … in one proposed research project. For this project, RNA sequencing was done by the JGI, and proteomics and …