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Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few …

… abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, …

… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key … This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying … SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to more researchers. …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Due to the ongoing pandemic, Woyke will receive the prize at a …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions … (FICUS) . Through FICUS, the researchers have tapped into the resources and capabilities of both the JGI and the …

… learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that … supported by the NSF grants  DEB-1354625 and  IOS-1456958 . Sequencing of  Dothideomycetes genomes were conducted as …

Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “We’re very excited to start working …