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Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers.  …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …

… key role is to design, benchmark, and apply bioinformatics software to enable analysis and interpretation of genomic and metagenomic data for JGI’s user community. She also provides …

The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest … trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from … to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and materials. …

BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees …

… studies.  This conference is inspired by the vision of standardized fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs) designed for precise manipulation and reproducible experimentation of microbiome dynamics. Together, we will explore …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container … dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. As any good cook knows, …

SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

Marianne is an affiliate researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments … in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …

… pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing approach to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene … outlines a roadmap that is transferable to other systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI users …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do … virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 …

… institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …