In collaboration with a team led by longtime collaborator Jill Banfield of the University of California, Berkeley and Cathy Ryan of the University of Calgary in Canada, JGI researchers investigated samples collected at Utah’s Crystal Geyser over one of its complex, five-day eruption cycles. Genome-resolved metagenomics, single-cell genomics, and geochemical analyses were integrated to show that samples taken during each phase contain microbial communities that are distinctive in terms of both composition and metabolic function. The report was published January 29, 2018 in Nature Microbiology. Read the full story on the JGI website.
