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Greetings my esteemed reader, you’re reading this because either you are serendipitously here by accident or else are interested in participating in the famous JGI-UC Merced internship program. …

… of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the … Bifidobacterium strains, on the other hand, are abundant in glycoside hydrolases, and are thus better adapted …

He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research opportunities …

Every summer, the flagship JGI-UC Merced Internship Program invites undergraduate and graduate students to …

… is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. The fungus  Phakopsora pachyrhizi causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) … of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … into  biofuels and bioproducts. If anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make …

Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two … that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running smaller …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … found, how prevalent in the mat are their viruses? The abundance of a virus relative to its host (inferred through …