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Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … . “After discussing the project with him, I was inspired by his enthusiasm and drive to give his students this …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … to any type of lignin breakdown — and lignin breakdown by anaerobic fungi therefore thought to be impossible.  And …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of antibiotics called zealexins. Even though scientists have … are produced in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional … that is also distinct from private industry. I really liked the fairly flat organizational structure, and found …

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 … to the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) administered by the DOE JGI. T.B.K Reddy, Kaushal‘s mentor, described his …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated the …

Overview The JGI provides sequencing, synthesis, and targeted metabolomics support for DOE-BER funded awards, … ,  Science Focus Areas  (SFA) opportunities, and the  Office of Science Early Career Research Program .   If … negotiation with the JGI.  Investigators with grants funded by DOE-BER requiring support from the JGI may  submit …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of …

… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled … plant fibers. But are they both actually doing the job? By analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that …

… for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … biofuel production and more. … This work was funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … microbial populations in other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when … frigid systems, where organisms higher up in the food web like fish do not exist, nutrient cycling takes place only on …