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… can demonstrate how competencies can be built. We recommend exploring how KBase (www.kbase.us) can support biological … analytics platform provided to the research community by DOE. Email [email protected] if you have questions about … proposal call is open year-round, but proposals submitted by September 21, 2020, will be included in the next review. …

… The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical labelling approach. The Impact … nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This action triggers subsurface carbon …

… have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on the range of archaeal … superphylum of extremophilic archaea first outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While … growth because they had larger genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In …

… that may promote soil health. The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy … primary focus — replicating itself.  Chitin is found in the cell walls of fungi and the exoskeleton of insects. It is … another DOE Office of Science User Facility, through a single proposal.  …

… diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, … a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. The work was led …

… core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and … their environment. Many secondary metabolites are produced by groups of genes known as biosynthetic gene clusters … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

… last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. … Researchers studied P. psychrophila’ s stress response by comparing how it responded to being moved to a … several points in time to assess nutrient concentration and cell death. Immediately upon transfer, the experimental …

… Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … and analysis of their data at the time. Following the publication of their paper in 2011, Dr. Sekimoto from …

… relied on the E. grandis reference genome published in 2014 by a team led by University of Pretoria scientists with help from … with GENESPACE, a computational tool for comparative genomics.   With a more robust reference genome, researchers … proposal ID: 508017, Myburg, Wegrzyn, Borevitz) conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( …

… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served as a Research … regulation, abiotic stress tolerance, and the mechanisms by which plants interact with their microbiomes. In … et. al. 2020 Gradual polyploid genome evolution revealed by a pan-genomic analysis of Brachypodium hybridum and its …

… Institute for research and training experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  Brachypodium … analyses.  When they weren’t in the lab, they were either exploring Berkeley and acclimating to the weather or …

… The FICUS call allows researchers to combine the power of genomics and molecular characterization from the JGI and … so that will have to be planned. Q5: Is travel covered by the FICUS proposal? A: Since there’s no money exchanging …