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The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do … partnership. The class decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched … was also able to receive training for the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) portal for their …

… interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, … P. hallii Mutant Library … Evaluation of Binning Tools for Microbial Eukaryotes in Metagenomes … Functional exploration of Phage Impact on Microbial Root … Cross Species Comparison of Plant …

Photobiont and fungus (mycobiont) live intertwined, with the photobiont transferring part of its … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … . To explore the genomes, Armaleo and colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the …

… positions at University of Florida and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of eukaryotic algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to developing a deeper understanding of … Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial molecular biology Post-doctoral positions  – …

… had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed … Being an intern here has allowed me to make connections with the top of the top scientists in their fields. I have … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …

Olpidium attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene … In both studies, however, Olpidium was unexpectedly grouped with non-flagellated terrestrial fungi, but not with the … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     … The U.S. Department …

… book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers … most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics … to test those hypotheses. From 2011 – 2015, she worked with Sabeeha Merchant at UCLA as a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein … AT, Blaby-Haas CE. (2024) Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins. Nature Rev Micro 22, 63. Davidi L, …

… displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined nucleus). Colder waters nearer the poles, … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the …

Find recordings and recaps of these talks below, starting with Ari Patrinos. The Genomics Arms Race Ari Patrinos , … two kinds of scientific revolutions,” Ari Patrinos opened with this quote from Thomas Kuhn in his 25th Anniversary … manager in 2006 when the JGI transitioned from human to microbial genetics. Drell held the role until he retired in …

… carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, … two cell types [of two different organisms] are interacting with each other, without all the noise or other biological …

Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant … of the fifth summer of its flagship education program with UC Merced. JGI Director Nigel Mouncey and program … Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several of the …