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Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants … Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing data gathered from whole samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, … on generating vector representations of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. …

… year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted … : “It’s been great having been able to connect with people who were able to give me some guidance in my academic … : “I got to learn about skills and tools that I’d never done before from my mentors. Also, there’s always a better …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper … are led by researchers, including Nelson and Roth, who have not been a principal investigator on a previously …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida … Everglades in Palm Beach County, and particularly about the microbes that play roles in the methane cycle. Their data … to offer actual scientific help,” said Jonathan Benskin, who teaches the A-Level Advanced International Certificate …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for … for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques …

… of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue … it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their DNA can …

… final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this … pairs undergraduate and graduate students from UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a … year. I was so impressed with the work everyone has done.” The 2020 JGI-UC Merced interns and mentor/s: Brendan …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground … carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular …

Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France … from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  … it created a subtle flow of nitrogen from the soil towards the exogenous nutrient source. The opposite directions …

… for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, tested … sequences can be even more challenging. To overcome this hurdle, a team led by Bernhard Fuchs and his postdoctoral …