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This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, …

Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants … to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … carbon captured from the atmosphere in a process that generates energy. The MPI team ultimately aims to develop an …

WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based … Computing Facility (OLCF), NVIDIA, and the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, aims to explore …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave event in the ocean known as “The …

High-throughput 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 … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … some of its enzymes can transform diverse terpene substrates into many products; giving scientists a bigger bang …

In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. …