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… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, … at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading … the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. … to the JGI user community and supports various user projects in the Microbial Program. In an LDRD-funded …

… estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also act as a … (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … the interactions that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive … used computational resources from the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of the U.S. …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea … and researchers are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline … blocks, or “islands,” suggesting that the acquisition via horizontal gene transfer mechanisms involved significant …