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… P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … to make products such as proteins, and the mechanisms for maintenance to keep processes running smoothly. As …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in … environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in chemical … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

… The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their … often tedious and resource intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters …

… Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; [middle] … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel …