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… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of … laboratories or national user facilities. Baker had worked with the JGI through a Community Science Program (CSP) … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his …
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In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … but also the ability to understand the complicated evolutionary history of strawberry in such detail is …
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… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long history of dynamic evolution and rapid changes in both genome content and structure following …
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… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta … important to understand early life, but also to link the evolution of this metabolism to geochemical data, which in …
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The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate … analyses. The species harbors genes encoding SPEARE proteins—which contain s erine p roteas e , a dhesion …
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… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, where she leads a … programs. The UEC represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies …
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