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Game On: High School Students Drive Everglades Metagenomics Study
… attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to … data set on the IMG portal. The class discovered Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of …
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Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes
… (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of …
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Systematic Identification of Gene Families for Use as “Markers” for Phylogenetic and Phylogeny-Driven Ecological Studies of Bacteria and Archaea and Their Major Subgroups
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Community ecology across bacteria, archaea and microbial eukaryotes in the sediment and seawater of coastal Puerto Nuevo, Baja California
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Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach
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Lipid analysis of CO2-rich subsurface aquifers suggests an autotrophy-based deep biosphere with lysolipids enriched in CPR bacteria
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Horizontal gene transfer of the Mer operon is associated with large effects on the transcriptome and increased tolerance to mercury in nitrogen-fixing bacteria
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Understanding Wildfire Recovery, Starting in Soil
… at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … track the forest recovery process.  Summary Most studies on post-wildfire soil microbiomes have focused on marker gene … DOE Office of Science National User Facilities in a single project. … This work was supported through a USDA NIFA award …
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A Genomic Perspective Across Earth’s Microbiomes Reveals That Genome Size in Archaea and Bacteria Is Linked to Ecosystem Type and Trophic Strategy
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Special Initiatives & Programs
… resources for genomic research and sequence-based science.  Projects include de novo generation of genome data, … Length of stay depends on the complexity of the project being considered and availability of data and other …
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JGI-UC Merced Interns Share Their 2021 Experiences
… virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate … the previous year and continue working on their research project! The JGI-UC Merced internship program was founded in …
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From Berkeley to Binghamton: Tracking Strawberry Evolution
In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan … The ancestors are a bit hard to identify and there’s a small possibility that something could be missing from the … specific procedure.” The rapport they built during this project and others (including the dissertation that preceded …
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