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… researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using 5,000 images of … retrieved using the  JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data portal. The IMG suite is a …

… Register here Book your stay at the conference venue This inaugural event will bring together researchers across major ecosystems and disciplines who are developing and applying laboratory ecosystems to help transition microbiome science from largely observational to …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental processes. The Science In a recent Microbiome paper … plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on root-associated …

… The JGI’s Genomes OnLine Database celebrates 25 years as a vital resource for … a flagship  genomic metadata repository, making curated microbiome metadata that follows community standards freely … scheme to better define the genomic information and ecosystems. These curated data are accessible on JGI data portals …

… the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences, among the interns were two undergraduate … minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. This summer, they worked with Zhong Wang’s and …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental tendencies The … — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform — has been developed to help … with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein identified from their studied …

… Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science … number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food … Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond to increases in temperature and elevated …

… Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab … of primary users — 2,456 — had active proposals with us, along with more than 15,000 secondary users who made use of …

… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from … minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. At the 2016 CAMP Statewide Undergraduate …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found that pollen’s pectin and …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … these changes affect the dynamics and functioning of ecosystems. She leads a recently approved CSP New Investigator … help advocate for programs that will support the emerging careers of ERCs. She’s also interested in developing or …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical … important role in the cycling of nutrients in these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his graduate student …