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… CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, … genes were essential to  Y. lipolytica . They identified 1,377, or 17.5 percent, of  Y. lipolytica ’s genes to be required for … Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and NSF  1706545 (IW). HA and JW were supported by the Office of …

… provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , … microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental United States. They also … the microbiology of watershed systems, they utilized over 160 river water samples collected through WHONDRS, a …

… hills, and it has legacy mining that goes back more than 100 years. And in particular, there’s an inflow from the … sustainable through applications of microbiome science; our water quality, our water resource needs are, are tightly coupled to microbiome … to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization …

… to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were … the moving process began in 2017 with annual one-day cleanups. During those days, they were asked to “KonMari” … Lab . “While we’re getting rid of stuff, our effort in this cleanup is not just to clean out the building.  We don’t …

… producers fueling our planet’s biogeochemical cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A … covered in thick ice, with a combination of marine and freshwater below. This stratified mixture holds oxygenated water …

… they take raw materials including sunlight, carbon and water, to convert them into energy that is then stored. A … platform allows researchers to mass produce identical droplets that serve as reaction chambers, and also allows … Office of Science User Facility (contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231) with T.J.E. as grantee. J.-C.B. acknowledges the …

… in the model fungus  N. crassa , a team led by N. Louise Glass at the University of California, Berkeley and her … tree of life, enriching the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was … the use of deletion strains generated by Grant P01 GM-068087 “Functional Analysis of a Model Filamentous …

… with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. Inspired by Randall Munroe’s xkcd … it yourself  here .) She translated her abstract from a 2019 conference. Both versions appear side-by-side below: Kaze was part of the  2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, …

… Sale. All year, the JGI helps support finding solutions to clean energy and environmental challenges. And many JGIers … cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half, relative to its 2015 baseline emissions.  Reaching that goal will mean … shelter to pollinators like bees and flies.  On April 19, this group hosted a DIY Succulent workshop and a plant …

… Additionally, CheckV was able to identify just over 17,000 contiguous sequences (contigs) of proviruses flanked … U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was also supported the grant #2016/23218-0 …

… some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their …

… this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …