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… excited to announce the fifteen scientists selected for our 2024 Community Science Program Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals … relevant to the DOE’s mission, and I look forward to seeing their outcomes.” The annual CSP call is focused on …

… gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on … 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San … order.     … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … pairs to generate a matrix of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, …

… is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, … Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for …

… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers … Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered …

… (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are … them to test composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director … Program (CSP) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department of …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, … in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …