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Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is also co-director of the … heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after …

… genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” … work was enabled in part through  JGI’s  Community Science Program (CSP) , as several approved proposals have …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and the  microbes that make them. It’s known that aerobic fungi, like …

… novel flow cytometry protocols for targeted recovery of specific microbes. …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; …

… to stay informed … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities … by the DOE's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program.   … About the Organizers … Stefani Ferreira , …

… serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to … the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California (UC) San Diego, being on the UEC is an …

… industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, … a tech talk. Stop by the JGI booth to learn about our user programs and how we can help advance your science. …

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to … internships in Walnut Creek. These interns included Cristhian Gutierrez Huerta and Bryan Rangel Alvarez, both … Research Symposium , held February 6 at the University of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were among 5 UC …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … by the black morel, as well as the gene-expression programs encoding the biochemical processes unveiled by …

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 … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …