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… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with … participated in this internship remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions, but virtual events and technology enabled a …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … liquid transfer and microfluidics, to minimize molecular biology reactions, increase throughput, and enable …

… Environmental Microbiomes Biodesign and Synthetic Biology AI/ML-enabled Laboratory Automation, Data … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities … Click to view a downloadable copy of the sponsor prospectus …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … the plant, like the brick-and-mortar of a building or the human skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and … Santa Barbara  recently published a paper in  Nature Microbiology offering irrefutable evidence that lignin can, in …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples … team to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology, information that could be useful toward the DOE’s …

… microbes are present. This study, published in Nature Microbiology , went a step further, using both DNA and messenger RNA (mRNA) sequencing to identify those … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our … stressors, um, alter microbial biomass and then what the consequences are for the ecosystem. ALISON:  So, Ed is trying …