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… to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene … was led by Hal Alper, professor and associate chair at the University of Texas, Austin, and included researchers at the … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … is through a method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were … in microbiome studies, these scientists (now at Stanford University) collaborated with the JGI. Working together, …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Duke University, published their research related to how bacteria … presentation not only helps students effectively communicate their research and receive input during the internship, …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … Roland Hatzenpichler is an associate professor at Montana University and associate director of its Thermal Biology …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … that live there.  Researchers from Portland State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison collected … in hydrothermal vent communities, with possible applications in biogeochemical engineering,  biofuel production …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … Petri dish, the thin vermicelli-like threads floating delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission … design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since … more.  … B.E. in Biological Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Japan ( summa cum laude ) Ph.D. in …

… as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … user facility. He did this with aplomb, managing his dedicated “Ops Team” who dealt with leaky roofs, backed-up …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … — then a postdoctoral associate in Ed DeLong’s group at the University of Hawaii at Manoa — and colleagues were able to …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field … UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology …