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… Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most … known as biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs.) As reported in the recent Database issue of the journal Nucleic Acids …

… The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of … and colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the US Department of Energy (DOE) …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 Annual Meeting . The … infect them, and that can have a great impact on these algal blooms. So Vardi and his group study one specific … smaller and smaller scales, his lab has developed an ever-growing suite of approaches, many of which profile both …

… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been unable to see … through a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. The …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 … for helping identify active micro-organisms within complex communities, and custom software for integrating … B.S in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. in Bioengineering, …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the … of the stratified water and determined that the microbial communities look very different across each section. The …