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… ultimate achievement. To get to this point requires rigorous research, written skill, above all else, determination. … over a billion years old. It’s an insanely diverse group of organisms that include some delicious additions to a savory … Grigoriev at the JGI strongly influenced her perspective about what it means to be a scientist. “To see how team …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and unknown. The challenge remains to learn more about what microbes are present in any given … than cellulose-degradation to tease out uncultivated microorganisms of interest from complex environmental samples. …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate … bacterial diversity. The team conservatively estimated that about 42% of the bacterial diversity has no genomic …

… Research Division. As a postdoc, her research focused on stable and accurate computational methods for … Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a focus on adapting JGI workloads to run on supercomputing … and user-centered design efforts. Dr. Fagnan was on the organizing committees for the ASCR Integrated Research …

… Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors … Database (GOLD) administered by the DOE JGI. T.B.K Reddy, Kaushal‘s mentor, described his student’s contributions as … tasks we assigned.”       Click here to watch a video about the Biotech Partner summer interns at the JGI. What …

… The Science In a recent Microbiome paper , scientists focused on the conifer needle microbiome. The phyllosphere, … pine, Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce–to learn more about conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what … microbes can degrade and transform plant-emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs), potentially influencing local air …

… a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … base of marine food webs are microscopic photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. …

… the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought … have a number of initiatives across several different campuses with this being our largest and most successful one. … changed what I want to do with my life,” “I can code.”  Jorge Arroyo , director of UC Merced’s Undergraduate Research …

… 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 … and fungi identified in this study was the ability of these organisms to degrade aromatic compounds from burned …

… in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic … in situ gene expression analysis in multicellular organisms. During his postdoctoral training at Lawrence … of vertebrate genomes, which led to the discovery of thousands of genetic switches implicated in developmental and …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved … enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, …