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… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with … the genomes and predict the metabolic abilities of these microbes. The Impact This study illustrates how the research community … by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant …

… Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hello, and welcome back for Episode 7 of the Natural Prodcast. It’s been about a month now since we dropped our first six episodes, and now … and making a few technical tweaks, I think we’ll be on a pretty regular schedule for a while. Moving forward, …

… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence … 94 percent of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia …

… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A … enabling it to take in more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic … how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt …

… issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five … outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … This is a critical step toward better understanding the impact of viruses upon microbes. A comprehensive map of …

… of Energy user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the University of Georgia, … focuses on the evolution, ecology, genomics and function of microbes and microbiomes, especially those found in … officer at LanzaTech, where he has helped to commercialize gas fermentation technology. His research foci have been …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept … S. paradoxus at high temperatures (39°C/102°F). The Impact One of the challenges in understanding wild … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 … drivers of methane production, nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, and water recycling.” Tringe is the interim …

… Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and … development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of …