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… to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model … Swift CL, et al. Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … regional temperatures. For this reason, the U.S. Department of Energy is overseeing the SPRUCE (Spruce and Peatland …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … when the fungus is present. The Impact Black cottonwood, or poplar, ( Populus trichocarpa ) is the fastest … The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … the machinery to make products such as proteins, and the mechanisms for maintenance to keep processes running … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … Methanogenesis and sulfur reduction are among the oldest mechanisms of energy conservation, but the genes for both …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … and fermentation processes for vitamins, insecticides, fungicides, platform chemicals, cosmetics and new crop … STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery. mBio. 12:e03432-20 Wood-Charlson EM et al. 2020. The National Microbiome Data …

… human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed … assembly, and improvement strategies for de novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large … Acids Res . 51, 1–24.Lovell, JT et al. 2021. Genomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … what TFs and regulatory networks are conserved across fungi.” Using multiDAP-seq, Nagy’s team is comparing five …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their … below. Name: Noelle Anderson Class Year: At the time of the internship, 4th year PhD student in Quantitative and …