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… training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal … the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he … Algal Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …

… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of their … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to …

… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … Antarctica, was separated from the Southern Ocean roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many … cycling takes place only on a microbial level. Previous studies focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in …

… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be … US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (DBI-1652164, 1933521), the Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical …

Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic … of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]. Dr. Charles Gawad has been supported for this …

The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins … the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National …

… of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  …

… workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid sequence into a smaller, constant-length vector using deep learning. Vector representations allow homology …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … (MAO), National Science Foundation grant MCB-1553721 (MAO), Office of Biological and Environmental …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study … under the auspices of the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of …

… to stress. The Impact Despite constituting less than 5% of land on Earth, peatlands store approximately one-third … boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … on open ocean samples. CheckV identified a total of 44,652 complete or near-complete viral genomes across both …