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Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual … University seeks to understand and enhance the rubber biosynthesis pathway in guayale, a drought tolerant shrub. …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … World Bio Markets Bio-based Business Person of the Year Publications Committee Chair (2016- ), Society for … Program … Education … About the JGI Director … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates … in GOLD. “Besides these, he curated several small sets of phylogeny, biosample metadata tasks we assigned.”       …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … able to tell the students that the paper was accepted for publication in a reputable scientific journal. It was …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental United States. They …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of this … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The work was enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program. For most …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous … a DOE Office of Science user facility. The work was partly enabled by the “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … The combination of multiple microscopy and omics techniques enabled the team to closely study the nature of the …

… data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the … their genetic diversity. They hold economic value as both biofuel feedstock and their role in carbon sequestration. Poplar trees grow quickly in a variety of ecosystems and contribute to stabilizing streambanks, …