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The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … Mentors: Yi Zhai & John Vogel Project: Characterization of Brachypodium distachyon root transporters in …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … and nitrogen metabolism, as well as those that play a role in carbon cycling. However, the high degree of … portal. The study,  published in the  Microbiome journal, broadens our understanding of the unique microorganisms and …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of … phenotype and genotype of fermentative prokaryotes on IMG … Publication … Datasets … Datasets … Datasets …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was … and characterize uncultivated viruses, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. Since … that we use as indices. So it’s really quite a broad ecosystem approach. And that led me to get even more …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … only specific plasmids or viruses. geNomad combines a broad scope, targeting all known groups of viruses and …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … , the team found that fungi are playing a bigger role in soil decomposition processes than expected. The … already suspected: these microbial groups play different roles in a healthy, forest soil ecosystem. Bacteria are …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … and analysis of their data at the time. Following the publication of their paper in 2011, Dr. Sekimoto from …

… cohesive data standards, the JGI partners with a number of facilities.  … Through its partnership with NERSC and the … to facilitate these efforts. Particular areas of emphasis will be the development of tools and infrastructure for microbiome data science, and …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … aminotransferases (ATs). These enzymes play a crucial role in how an organism processes both carbon and nitrogen. … anytime you make an amine-based molecule — a very critical role,” he said. These enzymes are crucial for creating …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell … First and foremost, our interview this week is with Professor Brian Bachmann from Vanderbilt University’s Chemistry Department, where he is the PI of the Laboratory for Biosynthetic Studies. Brian and I are …