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… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these sequences are …

From left to right: [above] Olivia Ahern, Adriana Corales, Hugh Cross, Megan DeMarche, Joanne Emerson, Matthew Hudson, Megan Keller and Julia Kelliher; [below] … large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the … California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program that offered a handful of graduate students summer research …

… include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped by dam removal to … mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and contribute to global biogeochemical cycles. Additional … large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting … their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But … traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … viruses are likely to infect, and (iii) identifying the genetic traits of the viruses to better understand their … is led by a team of highly experienced investigators from institutions including the University of Maryland and …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. … began in 2014, pairs undergraduate and graduate students from UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they …

Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … to see what research is like at JGI. After graduating from UC Merced, this experience will help them direct their … could be considered.” Olmstead’s project focused on the genetic mechanisms of chemotaxis in the Arabidopsis …

Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on … user bottlenecks in access, analysis and sharing of JGI-generated data. She is also interested in reaching and … other scientific organizations. Fungal biologist Stajich from UC Riverside sees the JGI’s open application process …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … Barbara  recently published a paper in  Nature Microbiology offering irrefutable evidence that lignin can, in fact, be … JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also …