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… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to … Undergraduate Research Symposium , held February 6 at the University of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were among 5 UC …

… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that … from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus … Zhanao Deng, an environmental horticulture scientist of the University of Florida (UF) Institute of Food and …

… The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light on hidden components, … SSRL is a National User Facility operated by Stanford University on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, …

… Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is also co-director of the … The national consortium involved researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, HudsonAlpha, and the JGI. …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … of this work.  Han is an Assistant Professor at Konkuk University in South Korea as well as a faculty affiliate in … located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to providing metagenome mining for computational analysis of the AT enzyme …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of … than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the cell-free system is that the cells are no …

… You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers whose work aligns with DOE missions .  Below …

… to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify … was led by Hal Alper, professor and associate chair at the University of Texas, Austin, and included researchers at the …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … Thomas Mock, a marine microbiologist at the University of East Anglia, leads this effort to understand … latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Stanford University, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and the U.S. …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break … (INRAE), Hungary’s Biological Research Centre, Clark University, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in chemical … Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of … than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the cell-free system is that the cells are no …