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… (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two …

… a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting … Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS proposals have helped advance her research. Learn more  here about the “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User …

… functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into … the next deadline is July 31. You can learn more about our Community Science Program here .  …

December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for … successful proposals: Collaborate With a U.S. DOE User Facility: Learn About Available Expertise and Resources, Open-Call …

… team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … to address long-standing evolutionary ecological hypotheses about how C4 perennial grasses like switchgrass respond to … climate shifts. (C4 plants use a more efficient form of photosynthesis that reduces water loss, compared to the …

… have influenced their careers in science. Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, … Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors Elle Barnes and Susannah Tringe Shari Larsen and mentor Robert M. Bowers … they’re doing their internship, it really made me think about should I, do I really wanna do a PhD in the future? …

… ultimate achievement. To get to this point requires rigorous research, written skill, above all else, determination. … Grigoriev at the JGI strongly influenced her perspective about what it means to be a scientist. “To see how team … it left a mark on me,” she said. In addition to learning about how to navigate and analyze large genomic datasets …

… between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students … at UC Merced. Cristhian and Bryan both spoke briefly about their internship experiences at the DOE JGI – revisit … . Additionally, Bryan was featuring in a video about the importance of mentoring with Tanja Woyke and her …

… the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in … on the global carbon cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: … and, acetoclastic. All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production known as Mcr. Until recently, …

… which microbes are present in a sample, to generate data about which organisms are active, and which microbes are … microbial ecosystems. These communities harbor tens of thousands of different organisms who all consume different … nice because people were given structure, but it was all about sharing ideas. All breakout sessions, just enough …

… to a pathogen. This ‘“alien’” organism — one previously unseen — is, in fact, a microscopic water mold, … ramorum (pronounced: Fy-TOFF-thor-uh ra-MOR-um) the genus in Latin translates to “plant destroyer” and it has … scores of nurseries across the nation, elevating concerns about the pathogen to an all-time high. California …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …