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Graduate Students Get Thesis Research Opportunity at the JGI
… selected to carry out part of their thesis research at 12 host national laboratories or facilities between 3-12 … Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at the UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change …
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Cataloging the Microbes that Manage the Health of River Systems
Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , … Biological and Environmental Research (BER) grants DE-SC0023084, DE-SC0021350, and DE-AC02-05CH11231. Partial support …
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Predominant Acidilobus-Like Populations from Geothermal Environments in Yellowstone National Park Exhibit Similar Metabolic Potential in Different Hypoxic Microbial Communities
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Chloroflexi CL500-11 Populations That Predominate Deep-Lake Hypolimnion Bacterioplankton Rely on Nitrogen-Rich Dissolved Organic Matter Metabolism and C1 Compound Oxidation
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Matthew Kellom
Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in …
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Picking Up Threads of Cotton Genomics
Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … to other plant genomes. “Globally, cotton is the premier natural fiber crop of the world, a major oilseed crop, and … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …
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Preferential retention of genes from one parental genome after polyploidy illustrates the nature and scope of the genomic conflicts induced by hybridization
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Charting of P. patens Reveals Accumulation of Somatic Mutations During in vitro Culture on the Scale of Natural Variation by Selfing
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Nikos Kyrpides
… of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell . 185(21):4023-4037 Nayfach S, et al. … S1097-2765 Schulz F, et al. 2020. Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. Nature . … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar … Thomson Reuters …
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Shared Genomic Regions Between Derivatives of a Large Segregating Population of Maize Identified Using Bulked Segregant Analysis Sequencing and Traditional Linkage Analysis
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Extracting the Secrets of Secondary Metabolites
… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired … in overcoming this obstacle when it hit the scene in 2019. Now, that power is poised to grow exponentially by … CRAGE, researchers are no longer limited to using model host microbes; theoretically, any microbe can serve as the …
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SPRUCE-ing Up Science
A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … When Lawrence embarked on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …
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