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… National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse … Dr. Grigoriev engaged thousands of researchers in genome projects and organized numerous genomics workshops. …

… of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s … is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants don’t fully decompose in … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to … partnership. The class decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched … cycle. During regular web conferences, various JGI subject matter experts walked the class through the workflow and all …

… led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the … source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every … mycelium to acquire carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the …

… at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By … DOE Office of Science National User Facilities in a single project. …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by … . JW acknowledges additional support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program ( …

… Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards … between 3-12 consecutive months. Their proposed research projects address scientific challenges central to Office of … to an exceptional caliber of scientists.” For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in …

… to the JGI user community and supports various user projects in the Microbial Program. In an LDRD-funded project, Dr. Schulz established a single-cell-based … Molecular Microbiology, University of Vienna (Austria) PhD Microbial Ecology and Bioinformatics, University of Vienna …

… genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers … plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at their joint meeting! … JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities dedicated to advancing research in bioenergy and environmental science. They provide the scientific community access to …

… mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities … by researchers under the direction of Microbiome Data Science Group Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …