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Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or …

Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, and the metabolic pathways of algae. They will …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat …

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science … in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. At the 2016 CAMP Statewide Undergraduate Research …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for …

Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech … Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, academic and professional …

Specializing in mass spectrometry-centered projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and integrating mathematics and … (2015). Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria. Nature communications, 6(1), 8289. Yao, Y., … Google Scholar. … Education … Awards and Honors … Selected Publications …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to … The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of …

… for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of … (1996) … List available on Google Scholar … Education … Publications …

Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the … gene expression with light and temperature oscillations throughout the day. At the Joint Genome Institute, Dr. … of Cell Identity as an R package … Education … Selected Publications … Software …