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… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … for improved growth rate and growth yield on glucose by elimination of gluconate formation. Appl Environ … World Bio Markets Bio-based Business Person of the Year Publications Committee Chair (2016- ), Society for …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the …

… probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … The process involves “labeling” a given substance by applying a stable isotope to it. The isotopes are …

Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting …

Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … that pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in …

… eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … in the Mangroves The bacterium itself was discovered by Olivier Gros, a marine biology professor at the …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by then-graduate student Cory Schwartz and his advisor Ian …

To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and … cohesive data standards, the JGI partners with a number of facilities.  … Through its partnership with NERSC and the … to facilitate these efforts. Particular areas of emphasis will be the development of tools and …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers … within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes …