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… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … also opens new avenues for utilizing these organisms in sustainable practices, such as biofuel production and natural …

UDE familiarized themselves with the research programs and user facilities at Berkeley Lab. Commenting on the visit, JGI Director Nigel Mouncey expressed enthusiasm about the potential of this collaboration stating, … together expertise of the involved institutions will give us the opportunity to advance unique scientific knowledge …

… an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and enthusiasts to look deep into more than 100 algal genomes, … genetic underpinnings responsible for these traits takes us closer to harnessing algae for bioenergy and the greater … genomic data on algae into one place, PhycoCosm allows users to easily compile data that answers what genes are …

… health. Three DOE national labs had people and resources focused on three human chromosomes: Lawrence Berkeley National … those associated with atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. Los Alamos National Lab researchers investigated … other conditions. While scientists around the world were busy sequencing the human genome, an arms race was being …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … The team then compared this dataset against nearly 80 previously published fungal genomes on the JGI data portal … therefore predicted that these root-colonizing fungi must be kept in check by the host and other microbes not to …

… team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples collected at these gardens. Building off this …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host … ground. These archaea fix carbon and nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This …

Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the … The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are also seen in flowering plants, or … of plants to the Earth’s ever-changing harsh habitats, thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science 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, …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. … the metabolisms that SAR324 and other microbes use could inform scientists’ understanding of carbon fluxes …

Spatafora and Jason Stajich from UC Riverside would focus on broad sampling of early diverging fungi, and Francis … National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRAE) focused on in-depth exploration of ecology-related groups of … genomes in progress and 200 that are pending samples from users. Roughly 300 have been published. Spatafora said the …

… wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize … Click the image to watch the video … Intern: Brendan Blasius (undergraduate) Mentor: Guohong "Albert" Wu Click the … … Intern: Jasper Toscani Field (graduate) Mentor: Brian Bushnell Click the image to watch the video … Intern: Frank …