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… provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of faculty and … to connect educators and empower them to utilize program resources. MICROnet is  built around a community of instructors … in mycology and microbiome science, respectively. These programs are resources designed to prepare early career …

… JGI staff who mentored students this past year, through programs including the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program and the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. (Watch … that anaerobic fungi from herbivore poop might be a new source of novel compounds to help bolster the bioeconomy. …

… identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have … impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light on hidden … second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over … makeup of new giant viruses. This review highlights four of these approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses …

… new research questions that span domains. We also work with our partners to build infrastructure in support of new …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … nutrient cycling, or carbon sequestration. Summary Existing programs use a variety of approaches to match a virus with a … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental … a paper in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists …

… insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for … allows Miscanthus to both inform and benefit from breeding programs of related candidate bioenergy feedstock crops such … to novel traits. M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets …

… is to accelerate scientific discovery at the DOE Office of Science through high performance computing (HPC) and data … and KBase issued a call for proposals in biological data science as part of the FICUS initiative. Proposals submitted …