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… normally would kill the moss may hold clues to how these carbon sink environments can continue to hold onto their carbon despite global warming.  At ORNL, Lawrence brings a … how microbial and bacteria communities influence the carbon-sequestering abilities of peat moss. Peat is found in the …

… floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao Ma. …

… Johnson in Wang’s group on developing an algorithm for RNA-Seq assembly. RNA-Seq is a technique for profiling the small … and maintaining cells through the use of deep-sequencing technologies. The internship program was born out of a … they said they’d like to come to JGI and learn cutting-edge technologies, but there was no mechanism for it,” he …

… out introns and dealing with, you know, weirdness in the sequence. You know, some clusters are not clustered…   … species”… he’s now found that some fungi have different ITS sequences in their genome, which might get you a little … these days, you’re probably going to do a complete genome sequence before you know you do a whole lot of chemistry or …

… which is the fastest way for plants to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen. Both … but other important crops as well. In 2009, the JGI sequenced and analyzed the first reference genome for … looks at how each variety stores sugars and sequesters carbon. 2015: Epigenetic Control of Drought Tolerance in …

… are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses … organisms carry out important environmental processes like  carbon fixation , nitrogen cycling and methane production. … boost plant-microbe interactions, nutrient cycling, or carbon sequestration. Summary Existing programs use a …

… users, which include projects looking at wildfire impacts, carbon cycling, and the microbial dynamics in freshwater … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) , researchers have … and improved upon a tool that combines existing DNA sequence binning algorithms, allowing them to reconstruct … in the community. Since the inception of the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program in 2013, a team of …

… such as the Copper River Delta wetland pond, cycle carbon. Using plots at the Harvard Forest long-term warming … with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated plots and blue … collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently burned …

… enhanced red-light energy capture, enhancing atmospheric carbon sequestration into sustainable biomaterials, and developing … that could ultimately enable new or more efficient biotechnologies.  Below find a list of the nine researchers …