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… further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired … that produce them. The Impact Secondary metabolites are microbial compounds produced in response to hardship or …

… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for students and … existing infrastructures and technologies, enabling these communities to become trainers for budding scientists and … SB was supported by the National Science Foundation Integrative Organismal Systems - Plant Biotic Interactions …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and …

… Kathleen Scott, Tiffany Taylor, Setsuko Wakao and Benjamin Woolston. ] Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for … crops through transcriptional network mapping, developing microbial systems to convert renewable feedstocks into … for 2025.  Proposals are accepted year-round ; the next deadline is Jan. 29, 2026.  …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help … finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… An improved genome assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a … using advanced technologies to reconstruct the complete sequences of individual chromosomes. The team describes the … hypothesizes the difference might not be due to repeated sequences, but rather the more accurate assembly of regions …

… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically … was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then biochemically characterized by a team …