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… snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in … Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little …

La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic … JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the …

… and is further leveraging the services of the Arizona Genomics Institute for DNA and RNA extractions to support … expand data functionality. Close partnerships with other user facilities enable the ability to leverage their … through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program.     …

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 … decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched region of the …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical labelling approach. The Impact … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” … to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to … that you can use to identify the inoviruses.” Overhauling the Perception of Inovirus Diversity The results …

… highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name … besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new analysis takes a  genomic look at Lentinula samples from around the world. By … complete sequencing of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands …

… discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research … microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of …