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… energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that dumped nearly five … microbes   Terry Hazen Perspective on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill …

… increase fruit and flower size, and confer stress tolerance traits. Given the importance of polyploidy in plants, … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the overwhelming majority of the ground … serve the ecosystem by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters …

… to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their experiences below. … the Biophysics program. (Graduated from UC Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial …

… is eating what?” and “who is active? … The JGI provides users access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA … functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate and …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host … ground. These archaea fix carbon and nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This …

… analysis.  MycoCosm provides data and tools via a graphical user interface, ensuring that no programming knowledge or … is required to perform computational analyses. The Mycocosm user interface is designed for use by mycologists and researchers, facilitating the …

… skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the only places that could take on a project like this because we have the resources as a user facility. The Metagenome …

DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … genes provided by these chromosomes can contribute to novel traits.  M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the …

Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it … the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the … and around the planet is an astronomical figure, and yet viruses outnumber them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface …

… of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …