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… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its … Note: Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley …

American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared … layers. The architecture of these algorithms, inspired by communication networks found in nature, allows machines to …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes …  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for … Automated Laboratories: Integrating Experimentation with Data.” The event will take place at the Seattle … and environmental science. They provide the scientific community access to cutting-edge capabilities for …

… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is … in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt levels change …

Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide … and Berkeley Lab leadership, the half-dozen JGI advisory committees and its primary funders at the DOE Office of …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals … total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with … mycorrhizal networks can serve as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their … metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, scientists have …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the … transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro transcription assay with RNA …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an …