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… have been approved through the annual Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust … they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the microbes. And in order to determine what genes the algae … sequencing was done through the JGI Community Science Program . Using an ecology metric called beta diversity, the …

… impact of a large-scale heatwave event in the ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term … predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a … Hallam’s approved proposal through the Community Science Program . The proposal focuses on uncovering the metabolic …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to … services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains … has identified the major metabolic roles of constituent microbes, publishing their findings in the  Proceedings of …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or … but they’re not always immediately apparent. Similarly, the microbes found in plant roots may have unknown roles. Some … . The work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s Francis Martin that …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies … and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described … has a number of applications, including pain relief. The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some … in part by the Allen Distinguished Investigator Program, through The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, the …

…   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon …

Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary … need partners. And so the Secondary Metabolites Science Program is three people! We’ll use a lot of the technology that …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational … group, and is past lead of the Eukaryotic Genome Program (2010-2019), and JGI Chief Informatics Officer … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …