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Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community … unparalleled model system for ecological and evolutionary genomics .” Understanding the nature and genetic basis of …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related … thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for … development of new biotechnologies around clean energy,  biofuels and bioproducts.  Summary Hydrothermal vents are … with possible applications in biogeochemical engineering,  biofuel production and more. … This work was funded by the …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … viruses are on the order of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with viruses, while the … lineages in the NCLDV group infect mainly protists and algae, and some of them have genomes in the megabase range. …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative … the process can result in other end products including biofuels and other bioproducts. Summary Researchers at the …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel feedstocks of interest to the U.S. Department of … . The team found that the shrub willow’s W chromosome has palindromic structures, the first time seen in a plant …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  …

… of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go … and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI on five user projects with the JGI, … has served on review panels for the JGI’s Functional Genomics CSP and the JGI-EMSL FICUS programs and brings …