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… in mass spectrometry-centered projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and … supporting the DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research user community in their bioenergy and environmental … 2024 Berkeley Lab Recognition of Excellence Award 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a … researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was enabled in part by a … Research (BER) and is a contribution of the Scientific Focus Area “Phenotypic response of the soil microbiome to …

… will take place November 18-19, 2026 on the UC Berkeley campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this … together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral …

… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. In the June 24, 2022, issue of the journal Science, Volland and … can find some TEM pictures and see what look like pepins so maybe people saw them but did not understand what they were. …

… It was developed to improve plant genome annotations at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)*, a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … even before this was published, and people regularly contact Jeremy [Schmutz] or me to seek more information on …

… In this role he supervises the Genome Assembly, QA/QC, and User Support Analysis teams. Together, these teams provide analysis support and R&D for production and user science. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cambridge University University in …

… combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those … not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a … paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because … well as gaining insights into potential applications they may have in a wide range of research fields. A public …

… will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the … microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of viruses impact many ecological processes, including carbon … to boost understanding of environmental viruses. In 2016, Nikos Kyrpides at the JGI led a team that combed …