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… they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, … Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  …

… class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant … and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… CSP  New Investigator call for proposals.  Tips: Contact us with your questions ([email protected]) … your proposal idea with JGI staff to clarify key points about JGI’s capabilities, technical feasibility, and … just add samples in order to max out the gigabase allocation. Q: Can PhD candidates be considered for the CSP …

… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and …

… of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, including the U.S. Department of … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those … send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through …

… The team has three subgroups: Synthetic Biology Lab : a user science group dedicated to user project design, … automations for DNA design, assembly and analysis Overview of biodesign products The JGI Biodesign platform enables users to validate hypotheses generated from mining genomic data by designing and assembling …

… peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches … to apply the latest molecular techniques to learn more about the microbial communities in the Arthur R. Marshall … to the refuge to collect soil samples from multiple locations. Back in the classroom, JGI researchers walked …

… the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … a condition known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in … the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what it means in a …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … Over the years more than 3,400 genomes have been sequenced from curated DSMZ isolates, for which quality DNA has been … information as well as of important descriptive metadata about each strain. “This has been a very fruitful …