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Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate … to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and … For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” she will …

… for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular movement, each of these lures are the bait designed to attract specific catches. A similar technique has been … Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas … on that. “The purpose of this CSP is to better understand methane cycling in mangrove wetlands in south Texas,” he …

Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential … to address questions such as sphagnum’s associations with methane oxidizing bacteria, nutrient uptake, and its … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management … and particularly those in processing (metabolizing) methane within the Florida Everglades ecosystem. There are … are preparing for their senior year, they will have to come back together as the paper goes through additional review …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic … processes like  carbon fixation , nitrogen cycling and methane production. Meanwhile, environmental viruses are …