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Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting … of California, Berkeley aims to redesign and engineer algae by identifying the algal regulators that could boost lipid … how microbes interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated …
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… little makers rely on to survive. Now, new research enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Microbes with Metagenomics By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its … said. “However, our experiments to test that were unsuccessful — which doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t do it, …
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Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated the … efficacy of RIViT-seq, researchers recently characterized 12 sigma factors and were able to identify the associated …
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… on, scientists can determine the level of gene expression by the gradations. The Impact Metabolic engineering could … bioproducts including biofuels. In addition, the team says that this experiment outlines a roadmap that is … expression. They tested this new methodology in yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to assess the potential of …
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… microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost plant-microbe interactions, nutrient cycling, or carbon … brings several of these approaches together into the same workflow, then uses a machine-learning model to give … program, described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …
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… scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads … genetic diversity. In 2021, he was among those selected by the DOE Office of Science as part of the Early Career …
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… computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), … participating teams the opportunity to either jumpstart acceleration or optimize their code on GPUs. While the OLCF … data and has a strong reputation in the community,” said JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan of the …
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… the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during and after The Blob, … model of how marine microbial communities are affected by warming events. More time-series studies could help … such as hurricanes and droughts. Another one began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third …
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… microbial populations in other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when … the polar regions to the deep ocean, cold environments occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. … communities look very different across each section. The biggest changes occur in the top portions of the lake, they …
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On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting researchers to apply for access to …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. On March 17, 2020, a … shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area counties. The JGI, located at …
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… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … focused on keeping only items that bring joy (and are necessary for JGI’s operations). At the JGI, that translated to sorting through the stuff accumulated in offices, labs, lockers, and other storage …
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