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… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and … capable of naturally modifying lignin.  The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently …

… A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an … science, energy conversion and water treatment as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem … and the BSISB director.  The JGI’s Tanja Woyke, head of the Microbial Genomics Program, is enthusiastic about new …

… surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental processes. The Science In a recent Microbiome paper … do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community composition and functional potential … chemicals and surface polymers as metabolic substrates. Microbial community composition varied across both sites and …

… University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on … at the University of Delaware. His lab is interested in how microbial communities can efficiently degrade complex …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The … and understanding viral genomes and their interactions with microbial hosts. The second project, “ A consortium …

… Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California …