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… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to …

… specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M …

… A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … for habitat restoration and as a feedstock for biomass-based biofuel production. As seen with many commonly …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated … users in order to address pressing energy and environmental scientific challenges. … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This study was funded by the Max Planck Society. …

… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have …

… hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … proposal: Maximize Your Research by Harnessing Multiple Scientific User Facilities in One Proposal via FICUS …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … was being waged. In the JGI@25 video below, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.   Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …

… di-GMP (Guanine Monophosphate) is found in nearly all types of bacteria and interacts with cell signaling networks that … in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which affects a number of environments, including … biosensors may eventually lead to ways to improve cellulose-based biofuel synthesis. Additionally, it opens the door to …

… the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … call is open year-round, but proposals submitted by July 30 will be included in the next review. “So webinars like … really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during … was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont … is the Microbial Science Program Head as well as our Deputy of User Programs. Click to learn more about the program's …

… challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns from this … And also specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the … is how to work with a scientist and, uh, how to, um, make a scientific research poster. And I was able to present at …