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… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? … session will demonstrate to students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through … designed for students to gain research experience and how students were able to use these experiences to get …

… we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to … communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down … mining activities upstream and downstream of the Arkansas. However, recently, there’s been a major restoration effort. …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding … environments, and researchers are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to … offers insights into microbial evolution, as well as how Antarctic microbial communities contribute to global …

… effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree without cultivated representatives. The “Great Plate-Count Anomaly” first described by Stanley and Konopa in 1985, … Phylogenetic diversity estimates show that the gap between cultivated and uncultivated …

… The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 … components that make it useful for scientific inquiry: it shows a full phylogenetic tree of more than 100 sequenced … experiments; study DNA methylation, which gives clues to how an organism may tune gene expression; and investigate …

… SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of … mode’, where they do very little.  SIP experiments can show which species actively munch on a specific chemical … this to untangle which microbes ate the compound and how much they ate.  These analyses provide granular insight …