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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … seagrasses, considered marine flowering plants, and their microbiomes. She is exploring the seagrass rhizosphere in … improving bioinformatics tools that can help with dataset analysis, as well as how they can be shared with and used by …

… to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify variations of essential genes in metabolic networks that were missed … Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples … discovered and characterized a novel phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed … Bill Inskeep of Montana State University has been conducting microbial field studies at Yellowstone, and in …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … genomes to a diploid state while retaining multiple copies of some genes. This polyploidization process is ongoing and … event (0.14 Mya) with a maternal  B. stacei parent. The analysis also revealed that these two  B. hybridum types …

… town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone … UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … today. I didn’t know anything about Principal Component Analysis (PCAs) when I first started, and overall found …

… survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … effectiveness has historically been limited due to the lack of robust tools available for carrying CRISPR into … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … attached to something in the sediment like a leaf.” The lab conducted some microscopy studies over the next couple of … bacterium was doing in the mangroves. “Mangroves and their microbiomes are important ecosystems for carbon cycling . If …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary … LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the DOE. The work conducted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … , is recognized as a mutualist, where both species of organism benefit from association, but was predicted to … Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility was conducted to understand how the antagonistic-to-mutualistic …