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A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change.



Episode TranscriptPublication: Camargo, A.P., et al. “Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad,” Nature Biotechnology. (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41587-023-01953-yScience Highlight: You can move, but you can't hideLearn more about geNomad and download it

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Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve 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 how those ecosystems work. 


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Episode TranscriptPublication: Perez-Coronel, E., Michael Beman, J. Multiple sources of aerobic methane production in aquatic ecosystems include bacterial photosynthesis. Nat Commun 13, 6454 (2022). doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34105-yLearn about the IMG/M systemJGI Webinars: http://jointgeno.me/Webinars    



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Sound Effects Credits: Marmot sound courtesy of slunali, freesound.org

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis. It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule. 


This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.


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Episode TranscriptHudsonAlpha Institute's Tiny Expeditions PodcastGuayule: Can genetics create a natural US rubber source?Guayule Project in the JGI’s Approved Proposals of 2022

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The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.  
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Episode TranscriptPaper: Global patterns of diversity and metabolism of microbial communities in deep-sea hydrothermal vent deposits

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In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into other crops. 
One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup pitches in 2022.


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Episode TranscriptPublication: Sun, G., Wase, N., Shu, S. et al. Genome of Paspalum vaginatum and the role of trehalose mediated autophagy in increasing maize biomass. Nat Commun 13, 7731 (2022). doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35507-8Phytozome: Paspalum vaginatum data

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On June 8th, Genome Insider is back!

We've got a batch of 4 new episodes where researchers discover the expertise encoded in our environment — in the genomes of plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, algae, and environmental viruses — to power a more sustainable future.

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