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… employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are … play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and … of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and is interested in understanding the …

… evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover … encompass a wide range of ecosystems ranging from wetlands to tree islands to cattails. In 2018, the US Department of … in these classes are allowed to do. I hope they can walk away from this project empowered to go into college and seek …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth … Program. As a UEC member, he’s interested in finding ways to boost visibility of the CSP to encourage more plant …

… (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough … The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your … litter and soil near the roots. But the deeper down and away from the roots one goes, the more bacteria show up. The …

… showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing … (MAGs), and that dominant populations varied with respect to the amount of within species recombination, indicating … are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and medicine, the vast majority in, on, and …

… part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In … results revealed a striking capability of morel mycelium to acquire carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such … engineers all over the world continued to seek other ways to make morels fruit under artificial environments, a …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and … earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts … This is the first paper that describes sorghum’s response to drought, from a large-scale field experiment to uncover …

… is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his backyard in … from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC … and graphics land well with those in the audience, he’s always working to fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that …

Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying … group. It’s enabled us to accelerate gene, enzymes, and pathway discovery approaches and provided the resources needed … the system allows scientists to test enzymatic pathways, which make valuable products, more quickly. In the …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint … urea showed nitrogen and amino acid-specific metabolic pathways were overrepresented in the nitrate-subjected plants … genes and visualize plots representing the GO and KEGG pathway enrichments. Detailed documentation about using this …