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… the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost … teams, and today, focuses on continuing to build and position JGI as a leading integrative genome … Secondary Metabolites Program head as well as our JGI Director. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, …

… with precise gene targeting transforms oil-producing alga into a powerful platform for developing ​​bio-based industrial … observed suggests directed evolution could quickly generate improved strains. Scientists have already used this alga to … ’s reduced genomic complexity can accelerate the design-build-test cycle for metabolic engineering. The discovery …

… are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms … the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists … that scientists have found, e.g. plasmids and other mobile elements. Moreover, the MAGs are composites of high …

… head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover … from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my … amino acids are assembled, which then band together to build proteins. What Wint and her mentors discovered in the …