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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user … are regular participants of the JGI annual user meeting and New Lineages of Life symposia. Bik is a recipient of the Community …

… to achieve, they constantly collaborated with each other on new ways of presenting and researching science. …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … conditions, researchers can explore how to better manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for … the adaptive mechanisms of Arctic microalgae but also opens new avenues for utilizing these organisms in sustainable …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also affect ecosystems by killing … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest … it enabled researchers to identify specific bond-breakages related to lignin modification happening in the absence … The authors acknowledge their funding sources: Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. …

… Michelle O’Malley and Tom Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery … turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel production. …

… Hear how their recent work revealed more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way of moving: a tail-like flagella.  …

… college student, I never really entertained the possibility of working at a national laboratory. However, through the … with extraordinary scientists and gained exposure to new and different opportunities that could be available once …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … to gain insight into the  genomes of giant viruses. In a new review, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy …

… A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events such … P. Sloan Foundation Grant 2013-10-27 (to the University of California, Berkeley [N.V.]); L’Ecole Normale …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of … in the haloarchaeal gene pool, a team led by University of New South Wales (UNSW)-Sydney professor Rick Cavicchioli … (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …