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… in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data … University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear from CSU San Marcos Professor Matt Escobar and UC Davis Associate Professor …

… survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … effectiveness has historically been limited due to the lack of robust tools available for carrying CRISPR into …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … shows how anaerobic fungi — the kind living in the stomachs of livestock — are actually capable of naturally modifying …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely … Korea as well as a faculty affiliate in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of Lawrence Berkeley …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The … and female sexes. For the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient …

… for Biotechnology. Phytozome is the Plant Comparative Genomics portal of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and facilitates accurate and insightful comparative genomics studies. …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells group. She has also served as the Functional Genomics Department Head for the Environmental Genomics and …

… new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new genomics technologies, scaling up genomics analysis to peta-bases, and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer …

… data modeling, and biological data management. She was one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for … the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) family of systems. …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container … dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. As any good cook knows, …

June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health …