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… of the latest SCGSR award is Mo Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship … her 2018 internship, in which she explored anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome composition and metabolism, work on which she will expand with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant …

… help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

… the moss grows, stores carbon and responds to stress. The Impact Despite constituting less than 5% of land on Earth, … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …

… and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but these symbiotic interactions … crust, there is a vast ecosystem connected to the global carbon cycle. Archaea are key players in this deep biosphere. They …

… between cultivated and wild shiitake populations. The Impact Lentinula mushrooms are white rot fungi, belonging to … Additionally, these fungi play a role in the global  carbon cycle . As decayers, Lentinula fungi access carbon … sequencing were enabled by the Community Science Program (CSP) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… and evolutionary drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil microbial communities. … B.S. in Microbiology, … microbiome. Nature Communications 12, 3076. Roux et al., 2018. Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome … Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long …

… communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with … they’re eating was different, and what they’re eating are microbes.   And so that led him to come to me with the … trying to understand how the molecules in tiny microbes can impact whole ecosystems. Part of the reason he’s asking this …