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December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for … successful proposals: Collaborate With a U.S. DOE User Facility: Learn About Available Expertise and Resources, Open-Call …

… team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has discovered that the candidate bioenergy … to address long-standing evolutionary ecological hypotheses about how C4 perennial grasses like switchgrass respond to …

… have influenced their careers in science. Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, … Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors Elle Barnes and Susannah Tringe Shari Larsen and mentor Robert M. Bowers … they’re doing their internship, it really made me think about should I, do I really wanna do a PhD in the future? …

… ultimate achievement. To get to this point requires rigorous research, written skill, above all else, determination. … Grigoriev at the JGI strongly influenced her perspective about what it means to be a scientist. “To see how team … it left a mark on me,” she said. In addition to learning about how to navigate and analyze large genomic datasets …

… between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students … at UC Merced. Cristhian and Bryan both spoke briefly about their internship experiences at the DOE JGI – revisit … . Additionally, Bryan was featuring in a video about the importance of mentoring with Tanja Woyke and her …

… the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in … on the global carbon cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: … and, acetoclastic. All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production known as Mcr. Until recently, …

… which microbes are present in a sample, to generate data about which organisms are active, and which microbes are … microbial ecosystems. These communities harbor tens of thousands of different organisms who all consume different … nice because people were given structure, but it was all about sharing ideas. All breakout sessions, just enough …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … information as well as of important descriptive metadata about each strain. “This has been a very fruitful …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … proposals come from investigators who have not previously been a principal investigator (PI) on an approved JGI … University of East Anglia was also approved to learn more about the roles of diatoms in carbon fixation and in aquatic …

Nikos Kyrpides Dan Rokhsar Simon Roux Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of … (Watch SCGSR fellows Nick Reichart and Ian Rambo talk about their experiences at the JGI.) Igor Grigoriev hosted … computational advances, and other technological developments that will enable researchers to move from …

… an array of experiments at universities and national user facilities, researchers found that this protein detects … we were able to work with on this project to ask questions about structure and function,” Blaby-Haas said.  Looking at … well in further experiments, so she could glean information about their specific function, filling in our understanding …