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For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … that colonizes Brock and gives him super strength. For lichen, the partnership is more commonplace — though … research, many of the symbiosis’ details remain unclear. For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the …

The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes … store carbon, filter water, and support all kinds of plants and animals, but with climate change driving more …

… living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah … Community Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” focuses on anthropogenic impacts on … on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. Inspired by Randall …

… the DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute and the Operations Deputy for LBNL’s Biological Systems & Engineering Division. Prior … to his tenure with Berkeley Lab, he served in the US Navy for 6 years as a submarine electrician and a financial … health and safety, and business issues. … Selected for the 2012 LBNL “Emerging Leader Program” at the UC …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable …

… of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies … systems, noted that she would like to help advance JGI efforts aimed at “understanding complex communities and … shaping the assembly of fungal endophytes across land plants and lichens, mentioned her interest in guiding JGI …

UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has … have done the groundbreaking work you’ve been reading about for years! And you can ask them about it! And they’re super … and understandings in the field of genomics. This has reinforced my goal to pursue a career in STEM. I have not had …

States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to … available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from genes to the community … scale models to manage river ecosystems. One application for the information is the development of river health …

… at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the … Todd Anderson currently works to support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have … of omics analyses for understanding gene expression in plants and the environment, to the JGI’s forging new …

On September 1, JGI held a JGI Engagement: Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications … to submit white papers to the CSP  New Investigator call for proposals.  Tips: Contact us with your questions … to make sure the goals, experimental design, and plan for data utilization are clear. Contact JGI staff for …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth … the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a … research community. Kyrpides’ project, “ Advanced analytics for uncovering virus dynamics and functional potential ," is …

… approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of … metagenomics. Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial …