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Homologous Recombination and Transposon Propagation Shape the Population Structure of an Organism from the Deep Subsurface with Minimal Metabolism
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Water aging and the quality of organic carbon sources drive niche partitioning of the active bathypelagic prokaryotic microbiome
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Engagement Webinar: Accessing NEON’s Environmental Sample Archives, Applying JGI & EMSL Omics Tools
… Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … Biology .  Watch this webinar hosted by EMSL to learn more about BioSANS. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021 for … or do I need a faculty member as PI? A(nswer: The FICUS program is open to scientists at international institutes.  …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
… 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  …
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Fishing for Novel Cellulose Degraders
… (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 … the function-driven, single-cell screen can uncover more about cellulose-degrading microbes. The new technique is …
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Comparative genomic and physiological analysis provides insights into the role of Acidobacteria in organic carbon utilization in Arctic tundra soils
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Substrate-restricted methanogenesis and limited volatile organic compound degradation in highly diverse and heterogeneous municipal landfill microbial communities
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Northern peatland microbial communities exhibit resistance to warming and acquire electron acceptors from soil organic matter
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Building Sphagnum Genomic Resources
…   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 …
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iPHoP: A Matchmaker for Phages and their Hosts
…   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 …
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Introducing New Members of the JGI User Executive Committee
… 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 …
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Applying Viral Genomics Expertise to Understanding the Human Virome
… lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of … center for the HVP ," is related to developing an organizational hub for the program, to organize and manage …
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