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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 same regulatory protein. Researchers …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years … after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, after …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of … development of the virus and plasmid workflows for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative.  This award recognizes …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, …

… the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in … they take raw materials including sunlight, carbon and water, to convert them into energy that is then …

… marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of … ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern … in the ocean drive the biological pump that takes carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. The Impact Stable …

But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from … and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, …

Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions are available) spotlighted the metabolomic analysis … mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, microorganisms, and environmental samples using targeted and untargeted approaches. …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … compounds via clear, straight pathways, entailing the function of more than a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now …

DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant …