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… communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with tracings of stable, heavy isotopes, SIP allows researchers to go … are eating what,  in the environment.  This distinction — between presence and participation — is especially important …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … the researchers found evolutionary relationships between methanogenesis, methanotrophy, and short-chain …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous … for User Science” (FICUS) collaborative science initiative between the JGI and EMSL.  … The U.S. Department of Energy …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The … poplar for which genes might be shared in common between poplar’s Y — poplar has an XY system — and shrub …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  … The JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was developed between the two institutions to help train the next …

… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar … Thomson Reuters … Research and Analysis ( CAMERA ). … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both …   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days … or C3 metabolism. Karolina says plants can be somewhere in between.  KAROLINA:  Plants can use a little bit of both …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards … research at 12 host national laboratories or facilities between 3-12 consecutive months. Their proposed research …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … In addition, this work reflects a collaboration between two programs within different Divisions of the …

… the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that …