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… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and … work on genome editing has focused on the seminal CRISPR-Cas9 system, which targets double-stranded DNA. The discovery … Cas14 – that target ssDNA. In contrast, the seminal Cas9 proteins cleave double-stranded DNA. Co-first author Lucas …

… relative of SOD is P. infestans , responsible for the mid-19th century Irish potato famine.   Shortly before the … 1;313(5791):1261-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1128796 Science News of the Day: Stokstad E. Genetics. Genomes highlight …

… that there was almost nothing. Now, this is back in the 1970s. So, I thought to myself, maybe I can use my background … natural products in the ocean weren’t studied up until the 1970s. You know, I mean, people knew about plants’ chemistry … underwater. But thankfully that worked out. And I spent 30, 40 years diving all over the world and bringing samples into …

… Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells group. She has also served as … the AAM Fellows in this cohort. Go here for the full AAM news release. Woyke is also one of the organizers for the …

… global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes … Communications 2017, Science 2018, Molecular Cell 2019) and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include the sequencing and …

… the Changing Planet (download a copy at jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science … 2018-2023 five-year strategic plan, the JGI accomplished 90% completion of the two- and five-year milestones. “We … toward our near- and long-term goals.” View the JGI 2024-2029 Strategic Plan as a downloadable pdf.  …