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The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential … (MAO), US Army Research Office contract W911NF-19-1-0010 (MAO), National Science Foundation grant MCB-1553721 …
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… that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago. The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria that act … microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … biofuel production. … The work (proposal: https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000691 , and …
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… internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started … the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought … have a number of initiatives across several different campuses with this being our largest and most successful one. …
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… the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the …
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… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon than all other vegetation types … for protecting these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US …
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Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and … they’ve all mentioned how invaluable their time at the JGI was and how great it was to have an experienced career …
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… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study … HT-SIP is a capability available to request through the JGI proposal calls . … Work at Lawrence Livermore National …
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… lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together. The next 3 episodes are the …
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… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … grant. RS is supported by NSF grants DEB-1441717, OCE-1335810, and OIA-1826734. …
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… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced … as Sorghum bicolor — a candidate bioenergy feedstock and JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. …
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… To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a …
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Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new genomics technologies, scaling up … of genome and computational technologies, in the coming years the Wang group will continue its effort to explore new …
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