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… snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little about where to collect the California Cone Snail  …

… a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . …

… 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 …

… a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers at two U.S. Department of Energy national user facilities – the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the … can synthesize other bio-based materials. For information about licensing the patented osteoyeast for hydroxyapatite …

… disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us lemons, kumquats, …

… so nice and helpful.”     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and really open to talking about their work. It’s fun to be around people who are generous with their time and like nerding out about the big stuff, well, the little stuff! People hold …

… ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches using statistical analyses to continuously refine and improve the process of finding novel Cas … and Management.” So begins a passage from Doudna’s book about her meeting with Banfield. (Banfield’s recounting of …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could … they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. … the globe, then using these sequences to make inferences about the biogeographic distribution of these viruses in the …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a … to study how methanogenesis takes place in the context of the genetic material of many different organisms in … Alternate Metabolic Pathways And there is something special about these new lineages recently tied to methanogenesis. …

… To put this evolutionary timescale in perspective, the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, … and ancient origins, fungi remain largely mysterious. Only about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those … genomes reveals just how much we still have to discover about Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about …