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… 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis. Further, the …

Software engineers in the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software includes: gRNA-SeqRET , an organism-agnostic CRISPR …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … friends while working on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their … top scientists in their fields. I have learned so much in terms of scientific approach and as a plant biologist, I …

… develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct … and viral diversity, leading to a better understanding of microbial communities and ecosystem function.  The …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … microbiome to harvest all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro …

… survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool for …

… group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and evolutionary parameters driving virus:host … involves both experimental and computational exploration of uncultivated viral diversity, characterization of molecular mechanisms involved in virus:host interaction …

Group applies cutting edge molecular capabilities and state-of-the-art next-generation sequencing to enable biological … The team works hand in hand with the Project Management Office to help ensure the JGI’s genomic capabilities are …

… microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than … The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … relationships. Summary Symbiotic relationships are long-term biological interactions between one or more biological …

… epigenomics. Our work varies in scope from the development of highly customized analysis workflows for new product types, to the development of automated analysis pipelines for standard sequencing … products performed at scale. Our group also performs ‘proof-of principle’ research projects to demonstrate new …

The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — … up the compounds and to puzzle out their structures. Their results indicate that anaerobic fungi synthesize molecules …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national …