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… other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria … chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class …

… species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix … sex chromosome. Palindromes are large inverted repeats with highly similar sequences so that their sequences read the …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … and her own as an early career researcher. “We were able to study hydrocarbon biosynthesis at a scale that would … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as … and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal …

Institute, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and … Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation … Nature . 2008; 452: 88-92. … Clarivate/Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher/The World’s Most Influential …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … categories: Catalog the human virome; Develop tools to study the human virome; Explore how the human virome … and Data Collaboration Center (CODCC), is led by a team of highly experienced investigators from institutions including …

As a first-generation college student, I never really entertained the possibility of working at a national laboratory. However, through the JGI-UC Merced … to new and different opportunities that could be available once I complete my PhD program. …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … fungi, given that the intricate flagellar apparatus is highly unlikely to regain once it is lost. Depending on the … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the …

… we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted … savviness of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean shores. Their results could bring key insights … and the ways organisms can adapt to climate change and environmental disturbances. Proposals are accepted year-round for …

… need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun …

As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with … the data,” Wilhelm said. Informed by other community-driven standards from the Genomic Standards Consortium, … Increasingly, efforts like these will help grow and improve high-quality datasets, enabling global insights from …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical … Mike Wilkins and his graduate student Kaela Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and …