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… could serve as the starting material for a wide range of fuels and chemicals. To get to that point, industrial … They found many enzymes that outperformed industry standards.  A year later, her team used proteomics, genomics and … production.  “Sculpting those communities is really a hard problem,” O’Malley noted. “There’s a lot that we and …

… bunch of little shows lined up, and I’m really looking forward to getting them out to you all. But for now, here is … their own environments. Like, bacteria make antibiotics in order to challenge or kill off competition, right? And plants … then, that there was gold nearby. And so then you’d start cordoning off areas and digging more and then trying to locate …

… assemblies highlight the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all … the U and V sex chromosomes of fire moss comprise a full third of each moss genome, and are almost four times the size … sequence the fire moss genomes ran the gamut of sequencing technologies, from making a bacterial artificial chromosome …

… and maintaining cells through the use of deep-sequencing technologies. The internship program was born out of a … they said they’d like to come to JGI and learn cutting-edge technologies, but there was no mechanism for it,” he … hands-on experience at a major sequencing center.” The third member of the internship program’s oversight committee is …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three … It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose that eventually yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to do so is a … lignin and transform the remaining components into  biofuels and bioproducts. If anaerobic fungi could be used to …

… researchers who want to develop sustainable alternative fuels. While more than half of the ethanol produced … that can be further purified to produce alternative biofuels. A C4 plant like sorghum and maize, sugarcane can grow … meant most genes in sorghum occurred roughly in the same order in sugarcane. To create this reference sequence, the …

… from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) , researchers have … utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this approach … in the community. Since the inception of the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program in 2013, a team of …

… which presented a host of interesting and ultimately rewarding challenges. Also, my work touched on phenomena that … tangible to offer.       Name: Ricky Yan   Class Year: 3rd year undergraduate student Mentor: Zhong Wang, Genome … Brenda Yu Class Year: 1st year graduate student at Stanford University in the Biophysics program. (Graduated from UC …

… 2024 Berkeley Lab Recognition of Excellence Award 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement 2012 UC Berkeley, Leadership and Development Program Awardee 2005-2009: NIH K25 Mentored Career Development awardee … Awards and Honors …

… of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of … programs. Among the recipients of the latest SCGSR award is Mo Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced … of genomics and JGI scientists are developing cutting edge technologies to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very …

… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for students and … and KBase to tap into their existing infrastructures and technologies, enabling these communities to become trainers … is supported by the JGI Director’s Science Program award #509937. SB was supported by the National Science …

… is a Natural Prodcast? Well, obviously, it’s a play on words – a podcast about natural products. And natural products … basics of natural products science, and, of course, the word Primer is a molecular biology term. We recorded the Primer as a much longer conversation, which I cut …