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… the DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute and the Operations Deputy for LBNL’s Biological Systems & Engineering Division. Prior … to his tenure with Berkeley Lab, he served in the US Navy for 6 years as a submarine electrician and a financial … planning related to the JGI’s infrastructure and business functions. He acts as a resource and provides advice and …

… soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while …   These experiments focused on two species at once: the model legume species  Medicago truncatula and the …

JGI! They are among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for demonstrating “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the … viruses, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity …

… challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal … from looking at single organisms to applying a broader ecosystem perspective, involving more multidisciplinary teams. The work also paved the way for a longstanding collaboration between researchers at the …

… mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the significant role sex plays in how … majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is … by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon …

… of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta … to the different pathways we see today is not only important to understand early life, but also to link the evolution … undescribed lineages, and the other five only distantly related to known methanogens. With the help of this …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns Tahirah … together on predicting the level of photosynthesis in a model green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We’re …

… organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes … in the Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help researchers better understand … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …

… also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and … help crop breeders and researchers predict how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes …