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… a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils … from Colorado State University, the US Forest Service, New Mexico State University, the Environmental Molecular …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance … diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much …

… work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing … thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence from just a few pieces of DNA. Summary The extreme … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the … Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 … and leading to the discovery of features such as a new genetic code. More recently reported in Nature , she led …

… Six new members have been elected to the User Executive … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … Center, Sundy Maurice of the University of Oslo, Aaron Robinson of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rebecca Smith …

… word. The 500 species described within the group are responsible for roughly two-thirds of antibiotics, and a deeper … of the bacteria potentially holds the key to discovering new antiviral medicines and treatments for infectious … are also abundant in soil and can be used as biocontrol agents and to promote plant growth. It is the largest …

… of Energy user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the University of Georgia, Greg Bonito of Michigan State University, Jonathan Eisen of the … are regular participants of the JGI annual user meeting and New Lineages of Life symposia. Bik is a recipient of the …

… multiple programs had their own goals to achieve, they constantly collaborated with each other on new ways of presenting and researching science. …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and … their funding sources: Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant …

… well as a recent discovery that turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel production. …

… To understand how organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund study organisms … more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way of moving: a tail-like flagella.  …