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Permafrost soil metagenome study on Medill News Reports

Microbes frozen for thousands of years can spring to life and digest the carbon to release heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, amplifying warming and melting. Scientists can’t yet predict how much of the carbon stored in Arctic permafrost will reach the atmosphere, but microbes could play a pivotal role. Read more on Medill Reports Chicago [Read More]

Permafrost soil metagenome study on LiveScience

“Nobody has looked at what happens to microbes when the permafrost thaws,” said Janet Jansson, a senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. She led a study that recorded what happened when chunks of Alaskan permafrost thawed for the first time in 1,200 years. Read more on LiveScience [Read More]

Permafrost soil metagenome study in UK Press Association

At the testing laboratories, US researchers extracted almost 40 billion elements of raw DNA, reflecting high microbial diversity in the soil.The scientists were also able to piece together the genetic code, or genome, of a previously unknown methane-producing “methanogen” that was present in large numbers. Reporting their findings in an early online edition of the journal… [Read More]

DOE JGI science in the Washington Post

JGI director and geneticist Eddy Rubin is a pioneer in the field of “metagenomics,” the study of how the DNA in many creatures can work together to create ecosystems. Right now, he and his team are studying microbes that live in a cow’s rumen, the stomach-like organ that the animals use to break down grasses… [Read More]

CSP 2012 announcement in GenomeWeb Daily News

The Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute has chosen 41 research projects out of 152 applicants to use its sequencing services under its 2012 Community Sequencing Program, JGI said Thursday.Researchers for this year’s CSP program, which provides the scientific community with access to JGI’s high-throughput sequencing technologies, proposed projects to study plant-microbe interactions, how microbes… [Read More]

Dark ocean project in Climate Action

To understand the world’s climate, we must understand how the 70% of the Earths surface that is covered with water behaves. Very little is known about the processes below 200m, or the area where photosynthesis is not possible due to the lack of light penetration. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute… [Read More]

Toward a Better Understanding of Soil-Microbe Interactions

In the August 2011 issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, a team of researchers led by DOE JGI’s Patrick Chain at Los Alamos National Laboratory focused on a microbe that can help or harm as the case may be. Ochrobactrum anthropi thrives in a variety of habitats including polluted soil, plants and even higher mammals…. [Read More]

JGI Science @ the Lesher: “The Deal with Microbes” video

The May 9, 2011 event at the Lesher Center for the Arts in downtown Walnut Creek featured Jonathan Eisen and Rachel Mackelprang of DOE JGI, and Terry Hazen of Berkeley Lab. KTVU Health and Science Editor John Fowler served as panel moderator. (Note: There’s a short delay before the video starts at the 20-second mark.)… [Read More]

JGI Science @ the Lesher in Financial Tech Spotlight

The one-celled creatures are now part of a major research initiative at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to explore ways to recapture more of the 6 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide human activities generate annually The researchers, who will speak Monday evening at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, are working with the… [Read More]

JGI Science @ the Lesher on Walnut Creek Patch

Most of us don’t even think about the insides of cows, the genes of waterfleas or the behavioral genetics of pollinating bees, but the 250 expert researchers who sequence microbial species—and actually understand the results—also know how to translate heavy duty science into layman’s language. Read more on the Walnut Creek Patch [Read More]