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…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … program,  described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

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 …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have … and longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts …

… single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist … genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as build their … more about their work here in a series of videos produced by JGI Communications & Outreach intern Ashleigh Papp. The …

… to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface … Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) …