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… water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John …

… (BER), Brodie and his colleagues have been running a soil-warming experiment in the Sierra Nevada mountain range … responses and feedbacks to warming through the whole soil profile. The goals of their FICUS proposal include … of genome-derived functional traits through the soil profile and their relationships with soil properties …

… the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased …

… has to go into the plant, out through the roots, into the soil, and then picked up by the rhizosphere, then that takes … experiment, and if so–how do you resolve root respiration/soil respiration vs plant CO2 uptake? A:  We’ve accomplished … that we think that works. We currently don’t have a great way to resolve root respiration from microbial …

… array of simple and complex components present in plant biomass. This is of interest for bioenergy researchers … in what order to most efficiently degrade the plant biomass. In order to learn more about these regulatory … carbon sources, which ranged from simple sugars to plant biomass. One of these techniques was DAP-seq, a …

… a STEM career?
 Doing the JGI internship has given me a great experience working intermediately between academia and … for jobs/postdocs in industry or academia. It was also a great opportunity to study and learn something totally new during my Ph.D. What …

… unique array of chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class … nitrogen, and break down organic and inorganic compounds. Studying their diverse metabolic capabilities offer insights …

… Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the environmental … and environments, including natural and agricultural soils, human- and animal-host associated, and ocean and … for more robust analyses by adding the MAGs. “This is a great resource for the community,” Konstantinidis added. …

… for infectious disease. Streptomycetes are also abundant in soil and can be used as biocontrol agents and to promote … a public platform built on the knowledge of researchers studying actinomycetes and the focus of a  recent paper published in  Microbial Genomics .   “Studying actinomyces, especially Streptomyces and many other …