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… shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial … popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to … postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed …

… leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry … Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of … and Kevin Solomon of the University of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the … more plant proposals and provide feedback on pangenome tool development. Maurice is a fungal evolutionary ecologist with …

… microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from … Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and … 4: 1895-1906. Roux S, et al. 2019. Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG). Nature …

… the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may … and other crops being considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for …

… and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects related to understanding … functional potential ," is among the five focused on tool development. Specifically, the goal of this work is to …

Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, academic and professional development experiences that increase participation in …

… team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … a feedstock for biomass-based biofuel production. As seen with many commonly cultivated commercial crops such as … to address long-standing evolutionary ecological hypotheses about how C4 perennial grasses like switchgrass respond to …

… and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Dothideomycetes species, and also provides more information about speciation events. … The work conducted by the U.S. …

… a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a …

… the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what it means in a …

CSP  New Investigator call for proposals.  Tips: Contact us with your questions ([email protected]) Carefully … your proposal idea with JGI staff to clarify key points about JGI’s capabilities, technical feasibility, and …