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… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in … in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … project in the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program. In 2023, Shayna Bennett, a UC Merced graduate student in Carolin …

… ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program, … like Minnesota for example, despite taking up only about 3% of the planet’s landmass, peat moss and their subsurface …

… can also act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the … carbon is stored in peatlands, which make up nearly 3 percent of the earth’s land surface. In the New … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different …

… in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development … in collaborative, interdisciplinary research focused around developing foundational knowledge of viral diversity … the JGI to further explore the ecological and evolutionary drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil microbial communities. …