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… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at the UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to …

… technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than ever before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 … infrastructure and analysis. This way, JGI users — both primary, data-generating users, as well as secondary, …

… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy … called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these weird little pods. …

… provides bioinformatics tools and analysis support for user science, with a focus on metagenomes. Passionate about automation and collaboration, she works to develop and …

… highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often … structures, as well as atmospheric carbon dioxide.  Summary Researchers sequenced 11 samples from Asia–Australasia …

… off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held … of novel compounds to help bolster the bioeconomy. Summary A team led by Michelle O’Malley, a chemical engineer at …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences … absence can impact the planet’s nutrient cycles. While most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA …

… Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to … at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a rare form of human epilepsy and subsequently generated one of the first mouse models for this common neurological disorder. In 1999, …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” the … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …