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… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … ones, a trend that threatens to destabilize the delicate marine food web and change the oceans as we know them. At … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought … 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 … how to model and track the forest recovery process.  Summary Most studies on post-wildfire soil microbiomes have … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a …

… of the five major lineages of cotton;  G. tomentosum ,  G. mustelinum , and  G. darwinii are the others. All of these … noted key fiber development genes. The results indicate remarkably high overall sequence similarity yet drastically … is one such example.” Jones noted that he talks to growers about Cotton Inc.’s long-term investment in crop research. …

… combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those … and other industries — yet there’s still so much about them we don’t know.  Unlocking the power of secondary … can then employ CRISPR in a variety of microbial hosts. Summary Photorhabdus luminescens proves fatal to insects. It is …

… a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting … Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS proposals have helped advance … User Science” (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: Q(uestion): Who can …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven … Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as … Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great meeting the wonderful …

… they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … understanding of nutrient cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, … to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Sustainable Systems Scientific Focus Area funded by the US …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact … began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic … biogeochemical cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the … can better understand ecosystem-wide processes. Summary geNomad is an annotation and classification framework …