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… archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” …

… applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological and …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the … and Kevin Solomon of the University of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … lead the Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory. Together with his colleague Douglas Schmidt and UC Davis professor … was released to the public in a highly-cited 2006 publication in the journal Science . This provided a …

… mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert to form the foundation of …

Gary Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … with geNomad. Nature Biotechnology . Schulz et al. 2022. Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of … academic achievements (2008) … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

… a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what …