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… of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a fight, but it’s an important battle to fine-tune. … the energy they store. Since 2012, O’Malley has worked with the JGI to understand the enzymes these organisms use … a rumen sample, you’re going to find beautiful diversity.” Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, O’Malley and …
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… sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. Within those samples, this study also tracks the enzymes … more genetic diversity in wild Lentinula species compared with farmed cultivars, highlighting a potential conservation …
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… in 1990 when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with the National Institutes of Health. The DOE works with the National Nuclear Security Administration to … involved in repair of DNA damage, and those associated with atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. Los Alamos …
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… of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 affiliated with the JGI . The 2019 list focused on Highly Cited Papers, … over the last year: Kerrie Barry and Jeremy Schmutz worked with a community of switchgrass researchers to conduct a …
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… together over 400 proposal collaborators and co-authors with affiliations at over 180 organizations in 29 U.S. … 85 proposal collaborators, 58 had never shared a proposal with each other prior to their involvement with the 1KFG project. Over 1,000 species have been …
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… a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi … and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned … a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds …
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… began to offer a window into viral existence. Along with highlighting the viruses in a given sample, … and grades their quality based on completeness. Along with expanding the viral diversity that IMG/VR features, … viruses could play a role. “If you want to do anything with a microbiome — you know, target specific microbes or …
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… Students can apply for internships and work onsite with an experienced researcher who serves as their mentor. … experiences. Genomic data scientist Deanna Beatty sat down with interns hosted at the JGI through three different … Jacobs participated in the SEED Scholars @ LBNL program, with support from the SEED program at UC Berkeley. Sally …
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… and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has … a diverse workforce and scientific community (working with the JGI) as well as our efforts in workforce …
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… how microbes might be influencing its health. He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what … eating are microbes. And so that led him to come to me with the question, well, how are the microbes being affected … born, of about 2 billion people on the planet, to you know, within my lifetime, we should hit around nine or 10, which …
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… Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant … of the fifth summer of its flagship education program with UC Merced. JGI Director Nigel Mouncey and program organizers Wang, Visel and Sindi, along with UC Merced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center …
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… displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined nucleus). Colder waters nearer the poles, however, tend to favor eukaryotes ( microorganisms with a nucleus). These photosynthesizing eukaryotes, or …
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