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… those big goals with their everyday activities, striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability commitments for the wider Berkeley Lab. “We’re shifting now to our … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … help researchers better understand the factors controlling microbial symbiotic relationships. Summary Symbiotic … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …

… functions. It plays an important role in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which affects a number of environments, including … Science Program (CSP) . The Impact Cyclic di-GMP controls microbial colonization, which can affect pathogenic and …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … that colonizes Brock and gives him super strength. For lichen, the partnership is more commonplace — though … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens …

… Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the University of Oslo, Aaron … with interests in understanding which processes change biodiversity, and how these changes affect the dynamics and … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on …

… Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; [middle] … courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research projects from PIs who have not led any … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

… National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. … in coastal sediments,” said Woyke, who also heads the JGI’s Microbial Program and is one of the article’s senior … paradigm of what constitutes a bacterial cell and advances microbial research.” One Giant Bacterium, Multiple Research …

… 25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than ever before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of … Podcasts ,  Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts) Microbial ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been …

… large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the … B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, … growth of Brachypodium in EcoFAB 2.0 reveals that nitrogen form and starvation modulate root exudation. Science …

… 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

… he served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources … of Brachypodium distachyon as an experimental model for the grasses. In addition to this fundamental work, he …