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As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … waters, including the tropics, tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined nucleus). … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. …

… fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … . The work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s Francis Martin that …

… they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, … they found a huge variety of CRISPR-Cas systems. Generally, prokaryotes use CRISPR-Cas systems to recognize and remove …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a … prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP (pronounced “eye-pop”,  freely …

The JGI welcomes three new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full … with new international collaborators and other scientific organizations. Fungal biologist Stajich from UC Riverside …

… a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . … of Science User Facility, through its  Community Science Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  …

…   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of … resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and unknown. The challenge remains to learn more about what microbes are present in any given … EG is supported by the NIGMS Biotechnology Training Program (NIH 5 T32 GM008349) at the University of Wisconsin …

… experience working intermediately between academia and industry, which is something I didn’t even know existed before. … my Ph.D. What is/has been one of your favorite things about your JGI internship?  Doing the JGI internship has … from private industry. I really liked the fairly flat organizational structure, and found everyone to be welcoming …