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Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California … to be an advocate helping both the scientific and education communities access and build on the JGI’s resources. The UEC …
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By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new … at universities and national user facilities, researchers found that this protein detects iron and fine-tunes energy … proteins that appeared in plants and algae and contained a similar region — a domain of unknown function, DUF2470. In …
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… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A … in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt levels change … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In their analysis, they found the salinity changes led the algae to express genes …
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… knowledge of viral diversity and virus-host interactions in microbial systems. Through a 2021 DOE Early Career Research … drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil microbial communities. … B.S. in Microbiology, Université Blaise … Microbiology Resource Announcements … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …
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… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow Salix … resolution to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene likely important for sex determination and … Palindromes are large inverted repeats with highly similar sequences so that their sequences read the same (or …
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The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear …
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… metabolites for multiple applications The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains … resource, but also yielding and supporting many high-impact publications ,” emphasized Markus Göker, who managed the production of genomic DNA at DSMZ for GEBA-Actino and similar projects. … The U.S. Department of Energy …
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… help improve crop yields. The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a … at the University of Florida, an answer is in sight for a similar question. In a recent Scientific Advances article , …
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… the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user … to an exceptional caliber of scientists.” For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in … Tringe’s research group focuses on the roles of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions …
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… its partnership with NERSC and the DOE Energy Sciences Network (ESNet), the JGI has unique access to both expertise … specifically optimized for high-performance computing environments. … KBase is a critical partner in enabling systems … analyses, such as metabolic modeling, that go well beyond genome annotation and analysis. The JGI and KBase seek …
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