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… inter-organismal interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as … and inter-organismal interactions, which are critical for advancing sustainable solutions in agriculture, energy … to generate high-quality genomic datasets, particularly for uncultivated microorganisms, by sequencing large …

… model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact … permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the U.S. Department of Energy is overseeing … David Weston of Oak Ridge National Laboratory make the case for  sphagnum as “an unparalleled model system for …

… how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but … Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert to form the foundation of this deep Earth ecosystem. For example, when certain viruses attack, their archaeal …

Our data platforms are a key resource for the broader scientific community and require constant … sequence and annotation data for secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) across all kingdoms of life. …

… comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.   … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of …

… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these … methods. In building this program,  described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. …

Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the University of Oslo, Aaron … that are not easy to break down, as well as developing synthetic biology tools that can help produce value-added products …

… , both faculty investigators at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton biology and lead to higher yield and improved fiber while …

… and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … of metallic protein that no one’s ever had a structure of before,” said Crysten Blaby-Haas, a research scientist at the … University in St. Louis and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as other DOE user facilities — …

The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been … year (perenniality). The Impact Among the long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock crops are increasing their yields … such as poor soils and drought. The reference genome for M. sinensis, and the associated genomic tools, allows …

… experiences and what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed below are the interns, … in science.” Mentor: Zhong Wang Project: “ Improving biosynthetic gene cluster annotation by leveraging a large … “ Development of a multiplex genomic integration system for the selection of genes essential for specialized carbon …