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… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW … resilience through climate change. Ti’Yanna Watson: The best part about interning here is the community aspect. … experiments, as well as deliverables. LaMonika Dent : The best part of being a JGI intern has been just the …

… secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to … to integrate large genetic payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining CRAGE with CRISPR provides researchers … researchers are no longer limited to using model host microbes; theoretically, any microbe can serve as the …

… is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI …

… outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was applied to a recent Nature … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … of metallic protein that no one’s ever had a structure of before,” said Crysten Blaby-Haas, a research scientist at the … University in St. Louis and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as other DOE user facilities — …

… large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development … B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, …

… the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights … possible to seek out and characterize uncultivated viruses. For instance, a 2018 study from a JGI-led team uncovered …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field … has a number of applications, including pain relief. The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, … has started, known as the Initiative for Venom Associated Microbes and Parasites. Ul-Hasan credits her JGI-UC Merced …

… Everglades in Palm Beach County, and particularly about the microbes that play roles in the methane cycle. Their data … provides the only known reference microbiome data sets for the Loxahatchee Refuge,  was published in the journal  … was a sight that I will remember,” said Benskin. “The best part of the entire project was being able to tell the …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The … dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … of how a fundamental mechanism of evolution — DGRs — allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds …

… the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic substances has led … (ERD.) It is dependent on the presence of the existing microbes in the groundwater and adjusting the environmental …