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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical … . The work builds off a proposal approved through a collaborative science initiative called Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) . Through FICUS, the …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … (mycobiont) live intertwined, with the photobiont transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the … at the JGI contributed to annotation of the genomes, available online at  PhycoCosm (for the alga genome) and  …

… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted … year is unlike any other year, but we’ve had another successful year. I was so impressed with the work everyone has … Matt Mingay Frank Gutierrez & Simon Roux Harrison Ho & Ian Blaby and Ernst Oberortner Jacob Espinosa & Li Lei and …

… Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, … by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) in collaboration with the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC) to produce open metagenomics data. Taking …

… (UEC) recently welcomed three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory … scientist at PNNL and thrust lead on PNNL’s Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology …

… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … archaea first outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While most DPANN lineages are predicted … Cavicchioli’s graduate student, Joshua Hamm, successfully cultured two strains of Nanohaloarchaeota and showed …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza of …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students through the Department of Energy-funded National Labs, User Facilities and Programs, and introduce best …

… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied …

… research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational … approaches to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and … ecology and virus genomics, where he has engaged in collaborative, interdisciplinary research focused around …