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… used CRAGE to engineer domesticated bacterial strains with novel biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). BGCs make diverse … their former genetic repression, enabling scientists to see what molecules they produce. For more on this feat, see … engineer  Pseudomonas simiae  with fluorescent markers to visualize the bacterium colonizing plant roots — a …

Her research focus is genetically engineering the plant cell wall to address dairy sustainability challenges. She’s … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on … the emerging careers of ERCs. She’s also interested in developing or improving bioinformatics tools that can help …

… intended to accelerate basic research in the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, advancing the federal initiative that seeks to reduce U.S. gasoline consumption by 20% within 10 … breakthroughs in basic science, and is exploring microbial-based synthesis of fuels beyond ethanol. … The JGI …

… and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … JGI’s Microscale Applications group . Cells were randomly sorted, whole genome amplified, then sequenced and …

Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities that seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. … framework that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, … with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of the  IMG Plasmid Resource …