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… down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through … research is very sentimental to me.” Mentors: Crysten Blaby-Haas & Bikash Shrestha Project: “ Detecting Isotope …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of … through the lignin.  Researchers led by Michelle O’Malley’s lab at the University of California at Santa Barbara  …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for … efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass …

In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring … research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant …

School. Though a partnership with Biotech Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, … higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School this …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … . The work builds off a proposal approved through a collaborative science initiative called Facilities Integrating …

They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their … organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of … eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics (metagenomics, … and biogeochemical cycles. He provides his expertise to the JGI user community and supports various user projects in the …