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… a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and Oregon. The cuttings included genotypes … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . …

… training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal Program Head at the JGI, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct … led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal …

… sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using team science to do it.   …

… species to grow better than its closest relative S. paradoxus at high temperatures (39°C/102°F). The Impact One of the … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, aim to improve our understanding of fungal diversity by sequencing genomes from across the fungal Tree of Life, but they also highlight …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a … (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using … of genetic diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a …

… microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify … Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …

… soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha …

… 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 … can also act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the …

… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). … the third is determining the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given …

… California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program … tap into the diverse talent that UC Merced has is tremendous for us, and we are very grateful for this opportunity.” … to seeing this internship program continue and I’m excited about what it will bring to the future of JGI, UC Merced and …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and two DOE Bioenergy …

… for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two … changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the … meetings were still a thing, i.e. in January. She talked about her  Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in …