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… to right are: [Above] Sara Branco, Asdrubal Burgos, Posy Busby, Hao Chen, Jay Chen, Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang … optimized lignin, engineering heat-resilient algae for industrial applications, and developing RNA barcoding systems …

… participants. Over the past two years, Myco-Ed has been used in 15 individual classrooms across the country, … DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase … a national network. Myco-Ed and MICROnet, in theory, are operating in parallel. While KBase does not currently have …

… for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two … meetings were still a thing, i.e. in January. She talked about her  Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in … that’s an example of a yucca species. And the cool thing about yuccas is that there are closely related species that …

… leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … biogeochemical cycles. He provides his expertise to the JGI user community and supports various user projects in the …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … is estimated to be larger than any other single plant genus. Peatlands accumulate partially decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high …

… ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae … feedstocks that can thrive in saltwater mitigates concerns about diverting resources such as arable land and fresh … to various stresses, and its transcriptome to learn more about which genes expression patterns. The analysis led to …

… Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the … Summary As the planet has changed, so have plants. Curious about their ability to adapt to changing environments, … and in flowering plant lineages.   With the information about  Marchantia -specific innovations and adaptations, …

… The Science In a recent Microbiome paper , scientists focused on the conifer needle microbiome. The phyllosphere, … pine, Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce–to learn more about conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what … genetic elements across all of the metagenomes. Learn more about her time at the JGI here . Bennett is applying the …

… forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a … look like a year after a fire. It also opens questions about what the soil microbiome looks like over longer times …

… the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what it means in a … where we’re moving from when my father was born, of about 2 billion people on the planet, to you know, within my …

… Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … Biology .  Watch this webinar hosted by EMSL to learn more about BioSANS. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021 for … also welcome to apply to the FICUS program. Find out more about the FICUS program at:  jgi.doe.gov/user-programs . Q:  …