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… DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative … the Sierra Nevada mountain range since 2014 to learn more about the microbial responses and feedbacks to warming … (B2 TRF) biome at the University of Arizona to learn more about climate change feedbacks including drought and …

… are solicited annually for the summer term (May through August) and selected projects will receive stipend and travel … Roux and Matthew Kellom for the JGI Metagenome Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for the DOE Systems Biology …

… of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … furthers the U.S. Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the approach they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to …

… working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and … returned to re-engage with their mentors from the previous year and continue working on their research project! The … foster a diverse future workforce in science. To learn more about each intern’s experience during their internship, …

… To put this evolutionary timescale in perspective, the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, … and ancient origins, fungi remain largely mysterious. Only about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those … have been at the forefront of tackling this enormous challenge, assembling one of the world's most comprehensive …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

… 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 … However, assembling viral genomes from metagenomes is challenging and often results in highly fragmented data, which …

… in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of … these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his … Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and before …

… six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Facilities (FICUS) program for fiscal year 2026, in partnership with the … what each facility could generate individually. Learn more about the projects below. …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced … Alternate Metabolic Pathways And there is something special about these new lineages recently tied to methanogenesis. …