Subsurface Microbes Expanding the Tree of Life

Multimedia · Mon May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1191224

Banfield, Jillian

Jillian Banfield, Ph.D., UC Berkeley Professor and Berkeley Lab Earth Sciences Division staff scientist and long-time user of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s resources shares her perspective on how the DOE JGI helps advance her research addressing knowledge gaps related to the roles of subsurface microbial communities in biogeochemical cycling. The video was filmed near the town of Rifle, Colorado at the primary field site for Phase I of the Subsurface Systems Scientific Focus Area 2.0 sponsored by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1191224
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
MICROBES
SUBSURFACE MICROBES
GENOME
ENVIRONMENTAL ACIDIFICATION
GROUNDWATER
SUBSURFACE ORGANISMS
BIOTECHNOLOGY
BIOENERGY
MEDICINE
AGRICULTURE