Scientific teams are like orchestras, requiring people with different skills. 🎻 Our Computational Biology team seeks players in mathematics, programming, engineering, and statistics to help us change the world. 🌍 Ready to audition? bit.ly/3DcEwu0

Looking for an environmental #microbiology postdoc job? The WHONDRS consortium (whondrs.pnnl.gov) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (pnnl.gov) has an opening (careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/4796?lang…) that closes Oct 16.

Scientists have suspected that proteins from auxiliary genes in viruses play a role in the carbon cycle and climate, but they haven’t had proof—until now. bit.ly/3dHiKUX

Isotope-enrichment reveals active viruses follow microbial host dynamics during rewetting of a California grassland soil biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

#Microber22 1. Symbiosis Harsh and toxic environments favor facilitation between microbes, whereas non-toxic environments result in competitive behavior. This is the stress gradient hypothesis Drawing inspired by the work of Piccardi et al, 2019 from Sara Mitri lab! #sciart

Curious about how microbes interact to cycle carbon? Check out our paper describing a model community of soil microbes and their specific roles as they degrade chitin! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNLSoilsSFA Omics PNNL Kirsten Hofmockel Sneha Couvillion Hyun-Seob Song Julia

#EMSLIntegration has come to a close for 2022! More than 120 participants attended three days of sessions, demos, and posters on #MachineLearning and #AI for biological and environmental sciences. Recorded sessions will be online in about two weeks: emsl.pnnl.gov/learn

It was a great week for field sampling at our gorgeous field site in Prosser, WA 😍 PNNLSoilsSFA Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

We're thrilled to properly present the Borgs to you. Check out our analysis of these enigmatic organisms here: nature.com/articles/s4158… Basem Al-Shayeb, Ph.D. 🧬 @MScholmerich @luis_valentin26 Jacob West-Roberts Rohan Sachdeva @acritschristoph The Banfield Lab @doudna_lab

“I think that the risk is low for emerging pandemics from thawing permafrost,” said PNNL scientist Janet Jansson

Don't forget that applications for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research program through DOE Office of Science are due on November 9 at 5pm ET! Details and application at: science.osti.gov/wdts/scgsr.

An incredible effort by Arunima Bhattacharjee & the PNNLSoilsSFA team is finally out! @OQafoku LN Anderson @the_brames wichnes Janet Jansson Kirsten Hofmockel Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… EIC Jack Gilbert

Does anyone know of a journal that has a set of good guidelines for software review?

Jeremy Zucker, a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory computational scientist, is speaking at noon PST on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at a free webinar on EMSL's computing resources. He will provide instruction on metabolic modeling software and methods available at EMSL. Registration: bit.ly/3EXdy8R

It's proposal call season! Submit a letter of intent to the open FICUS Program calls with DOE Office of Science user facilities Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), ARM News, and Joint Genome Institute. Through the funding calls, researchers gain access to specialized instrumentation and resources. emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals

After a round-trip journey from Eastern Washington to space and back, a soil sample arrived at PNNL today where researchers will begin studying how bacteria found in the soil behaved in space. bit.ly/3OvoX4i

Exciting news! Our latest paper ‘Rapid remodeling of the soil lipidome in response to a drying-rewetting event’ has been published in Microbiome dlvr.it/Sk59R0 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory DOE Office of Science PNNLSoilsSFA Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) National Microbiome Data Collaborative 1/9 🧵

Multidimensional mass spectrometry + machine learning = richer metabolomics!🎉 Learn more about our breakthrough workflow for studying engineered microbes🧬 in synthetic biology applications. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Just came across some 🐍📬- “Machine Learning-Based Protein Annotation Tool Snekmer”⁦ a ⁦DOE Office of Science⁩ feature by the #PerConSFA team ⁦Pacific Northwest National Laboratory⁩ Jason McDermott⁩ ⁦wichnes⁩ ⁦Rob Egbert⁩ | 🤗 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… science.osti.gov/ber/Highlights…

Are you an ecologist (microbial or otherwise) working on a shotgun metagenome dataset ? Do you want to make friends with other people doing the same so you can cry, laugh, and compare notes? Join our discord group!! (Other omics types welcome too!) discord.gg/ZaQpD4pvmX