Results
… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … identify and classify the prokaryote. “I thought they were eukaryotes; I didn’t think they were bacteria because they … explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have never been studied …
Learn more
… Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the … the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan … email request reached Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh , the Metagenome Program Head at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …
Learn more
… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … of carbon on earth; because SAR324 — one of the most abundant organisms in the deep ocean — can fix carbon, SAR324 is … (Berkeley Lab), through the JGI Community Science Program . The metagenomes were also processed using the …
Learn more
… Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) program was developed to meet the Nation's growing need for … University worked with DOE JGI's Sam Deutsch. Learn more about the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program at http://www.krellinst.org/csgf/ . …
Learn more
… Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the … Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers. …
Learn more
… of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … by the DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program to enable scientific discovery in support of the DOE … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …
Learn more
… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven … from UC Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the students participated in … Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as …
Learn more
… snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016. She … Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little …
Learn more
… crop yields. The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants that have increased fruit and seed yield. … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …
Learn more
… 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 … of Hallam’s approved proposal through the Community Science Program . The proposal focuses on uncovering the metabolic …
Learn more

