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… paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from … 4th year PhD student in Quantitative and Systems Biology Mentor: Guohong Wu, Plant Comparative Analysis What …

… known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the … Genomes Project, which aims to provide a reference genome for each of the fungal families. Researchers had access to … genomes, they also built a high-quality phylogenetic tree for  Dothideomycetes . The data allowed the team to …

… those big goals with their everyday activities, striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability commitments for the wider Berkeley Lab. “We’re shifting now to our … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes … microbes are present. This study, published in Nature Microbiology , went a step further, using both DNA and messenger …

… -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems … water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. As any good cook … goal. In a collaborative effort published in Communications Biology , a team involving researchers at the U.S. …

… which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among … Phytozome. The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. Switchgrass has a large polyploid genome, which …

… highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 … a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. I-Min Chen ,  Natalia Ivanova ,  Nikos … , and Tanja Woyke  were part of a “big data” mining effort reported in  Nature Biotechnology that led to the …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and … at Montana University and associate director of its Thermal Biology Institute. He’s been investigating methanogenesis …

… challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns from this … it just showed me when people have a goal and passion for it, it’s possible to do amazing things. And it made me … other tools that I can use to, um, perform computational biology.  Eric Wu : From the internship I learned to work as …

… , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class … of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific … leaders in the field of microbiology and are relied upon for authoritative advice and insight on critical issues in …

… and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users … she is committed to representing and advocating for early career users on the UEC. As a user of the JGI and … in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, where she leads a research group …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial … it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during and after The Blob, researchers developed a … They recently shared their findings in Communications Biology . They reported that the heatwave caused the …