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… by the JGI Chief Informatics Officer (CIO) and reports to the JGI Director. The IAC is chartered to render advice, guidance, and counsel on the effective …

Marianne is an affiliate researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is …

… have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and … Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples from four sites: … mycorrhizal symbionts shuttle water and nutrients to trees; plant pathogens colonize living plants to feed on them.  …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved … the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes …

… (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, aims to explore applications in the life sciences that can be ported to the GPU architecture. A GPU hackathon is a five-day … will be sent out. The main benefit is professional growth and development for the developers, and the code …

Tomas uses traditional cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within microbial …

… with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it comes to nutrient cycling in polar regions. While microbial … aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of …

… showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing … cannot be cultivated in the lab. What makes this particular study unique is the application of single cell genomics to a … of friends, while another might exhibit few limitations to interactions and new connections, thus sharing more ideas, …

… journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University … Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While … in particular, as a model system for venom-microbe interactions. Cone snail venom has a number of applications, …

… site. The chemical PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via … mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical compound … adjusting the environmental conditions to encourage their growth. In this instance, vegetable oil was injected into a …

… alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on … and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty …