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… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been moved … asked to “KonMari” their spaces, a decluttering method focused on keeping only items that bring joy (and are necessary …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for biofuels and bioproducts. Andrew …
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… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … separate, seawater seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with very hot rocks below, becoming an …
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… cow stomach. Rumen – and its microbes – are really a powerhouse. Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy … hold clues to how humans could do the same on an industrial scale to produce biofuels . Since one of the … are an optimal study subject that could lead to more sustainable energy production. However, less than 10% of the …
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… amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, … productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the …
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JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For … JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. On … but unbeknownst to Ray and most of the rest of the 200-plus Zoom participants. While the virtual mic shifted to Ray …
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… and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of … at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … related to understanding how the interactions between viruses and their host microbes impact the regulation of global …
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… peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches … from wetlands to tree islands to cattails. In 2018, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … we could even complete a full project. Every other group I contacted was happy to offer advice but declined to offer …
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… down potential biomass sources in ways we are only just beginning to understand. A better understanding of rumen … inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using microbial understanding to formulate a vaccine for livestock, to the same effect. Yet another approach is using the Hungate1000 collection to identify microbial …
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… the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be … takes him to a portion of the Arkansas River that’s just a little west of Fort Collins, near a city called … which is how the EPA, it’s one of the indices they use for stream health, they look at how many invertebrate …
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… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … published November 11, 2022, in Cell Genomics , the team focused on Actinobacteria ( Actinomycetota ), a group of …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 large-scale proposals have been accepted … had not been a primary investigator on any proposals previously accepted through JGI’s calls. Nearly 200 Terabases of … expected to be generated for the accepted proposals, said Susannah Tringe, JGI User Programs Deputy. “These new CSP …
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