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Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and … positively, influenced the bioinformatics skillset I have today. I didn’t know anything about Principal Component …

… harsh conditions. And their survival secrets could one day help other organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So … of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and …

… fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial … rhizobacterium (PGPR) Pseudomonas simiae WCS417. One suggested function of these phage genes is the …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the … and how it gave rise to the different pathways we see today is not only important to understand early life, but also …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the … editing by coupling Cre-lox and CRISPR-Cas9 systems. PloS one. 15: 11. 2020 Blaby & Cheng, Building a custom … starchless mutant. The Plant Cell . 25: 11, 4305-4323. 2013 Blaby et. al., Experimental evolution of a …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost plant-microbe interactions, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … CRISPR systems. The collaboration has resulted in several papers, including one in 2018 on the discovery of miniature CRISPR-associated …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent … virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, … manages metabolomics production for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics … mays). Scientific Reports. 2021. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-79320-z 3. Louie KB, Kosina SM, Hu Y, Otani H, de Raad M, …

Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community … CSP proposal. The researchers found that these species encode a sulfate reduction pathway, but also have genes for …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for the first time, that this group is unexpectedly powerful: they … whip up dozens of complex natural products, including new ones. The Impact In the past, natural products have been an …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? … synthesis of sustainable chemical products,” said Jewett, one of the study’s senior authors. “But this has been done … a product in just eight hours that growing cells take three days to make, which is a really exciting jump in the rate of …