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… of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … or no oxygen, life had found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation. To better understand … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …

… fellow interns and scientists alike. Want to learn more about their experience? Watch the short video below. Video … fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. Ti’Yanna Watson: My mentor is Dr. Yi … through climate change. Ti’Yanna Watson: The best part about interning here is the community aspect. Everyone here …

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… at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Kyrpides’ research focus on Microbiome Research with an emphasis on Microbiome … with geNomad. Nat Biotechnol . Epub. Neri U. et al. (2022) Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse … S, et al. (2021) Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome. Nat Microbiol . …

JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For … JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. On … is still good. “I noticed right away,” said Ellen Ford about Ray’s personal impact on her, “that you started …

… identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic … cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of … biogeochemical cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … Carey, now at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, reported that high quality genome references are now … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene … degrade the plant biomass. In order to learn more about these regulatory networks in the model fungus  N. …

… began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … shared their findings in Communications Biology . They reported that the heatwave caused the microbial populations …

… fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … The team then compared this dataset against nearly 80 previously published fungal genomes on the JGI data portal …

Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of biosynthetic gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he … "Natural Prodcast" podcast, a "fireside chat"-style podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high … the University of Konstanz and the University of Vienna  reported recovering draft metagenome-assembled genomes for …