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… ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae … feedstocks, algae are tiny but mighty. An analysis in the 2017 Bioeconomy Report estimated that the United States has … Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy …

… Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant advances compared to the 2014 Eucalyptus grandis reference genome that has been widely adopted. … ID: 508017, Myburg, Wegrzyn, Borevitz) conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( …

… cow stomach. Rumen – and its microbes – are really a powerhouse. Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy … hold clues to how humans could do the same on an industrial scale to produce biofuels . Since one of the … to more sustainable energy production.  However, less than 10% of the microbes found in any environment can be grown in …

… challenges.   The Human Genome Project began in 1990 when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with … health. Three DOE national labs had people and resources focused on three human chromosomes: Lawrence Berkeley National … human genome, which itself was finally deemed complete on April 1, 2022. After completing the human genome, the JGI …

… training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal … over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he launched scale-up of algal geomics and PhycoCosm portal. Dr. Grigoriev engaged thousands of researchers in genome projects and organized …

… Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user facility at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the … She earned her PhD in Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de … and led the Quantitative Plant Science Initiative (2017-2022), a BER Science Focus Area (SFA).  …

… to a pathogen. This ‘“alien’” organism — one previously unseen — is, in fact, a microscopic water mold, … relative of SOD is P. infestans , responsible for the mid-19th century Irish potato famine.   Shortly before the … threaten the health of the tree. While drought conditions may slow the progress of SOD, the debilitated trees become …

… leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … Joint BioEnergy Institute and the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI users.  Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Science Program (CSP) .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… novel technique to access high-quality genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual … single cell – a symbiont of the green sharpshooter. In 2012, single cells isolated from the microbes found in the oil … microbial lineages from a variety of environments. In 2017, the first New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) workshop was …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were … three years ago. For JGIers, the moving process began in 2017 with annual one-day cleanups. During those days, they … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that while archaeal hitchhikers may often act as parasites, in other cases, they likely help …