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… instruction and paid internships sponsored by various biotech and healthcare industry partners. Our interns say their experiences allowed them to:  Learn new skills. Experience industry-level work and coding. Receive mentorship, network and …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who … method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort … a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

… will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the … microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of viruses impact many ecological processes, including carbon … to boost understanding of environmental viruses. In 2016, Nikos Kyrpides at the JGI led a team that combed …

… allowed them to:  Learn new skills. Experience industry-level work and coding. Receive mentorship, network and …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These … yield. Conversely, some crops such as bioenergy sorghum may need sterile males; plant breeding experiments could be …

… of STEM teaching & learning. Their coursework focuses on STEM pedagogy, educational theory and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, with concurrent field work in local classrooms and … or math teaching credential as an undergraduate simultaneously with their undergraduate degree. Our interns say their …

… in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of … these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his … the questions they’re looking at: the role viral infection may play in other natural ecosystems. The video complements …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times … on a smaller scale. Depending on the species, some sphagnum may prefer the dryer, more elevated soil of the hummocks or …

… down potential biomass sources in ways we are only just beginning to understand. A better understanding of rumen … inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using microbial understanding to formulate a vaccine for livestock, to the same effect. Yet another approach is using the Hungate1000 collection to identify microbial …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for more sustainable agriculture and was written by JGI computational … senior editor for  Nature Reviews Microbiology, with an unusual opportunity: would JGI researchers consider regularly …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, for publicly available metagenome data … Hot Springs is a highly-reduced, suboxic system that may be analogous to environments found on early Earth.”  …