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… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is reduced in …

… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to destabilize the delicate … microscopic photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who … through the Biotech Partners program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates and …

… high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility … Office of Science user facility, aims to explore applications in the life sciences that can be ported to the GPU architecture. A GPU hackathon is a five-day coding event that offers participating …

… metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell genomics by collecting … cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches …

Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and … capable of naturally modifying lignin.  The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. The Impact Stable …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize users with the …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. … to understanding what these viruses can do. Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, researchers …

The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. … Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one place where you can browse the genetic blueprints of these photosynthetic organisms. PhycoCosm is one of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an …

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from … Alvarez, both California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) students at UC Merced. CAMP is a statewide …