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A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements … a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. … Through the JGI’s  Community Science Program , the scientists thus set out to identify which sgRNA sequences …

… of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy to make complex compounds called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic … the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform how scientists can more easily convert plants into …

… with little or no oxygen, life had found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation. To better … mission. Fermentative metabolism occurs in environments such as ruminant guts, sediments, and anaerobic bioreactors. Aside from producing energy that the organisms can use to thrive, the …

… microbiome science from largely observational to reproducible mechanistic studies.  This conference is inspired by … (EcoFABs) designed for precise manipulation and reproducible experimentation of microbiome dynamics. Together, we … research. Contact If you have questions or would like access to the EcoFAB Discord server, which has channels for …

University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to …

… the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help … into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the …

… and how the mutualistic associations allow host plants, such as candidate  bioenergy feedstock crops, to acquire … . The work builds upon several papers and workshops, starting with the first mycorrhizal genome sequence … will assist researchers in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of …

… it was possible to identify specific attributes — such as heat resistance, fast growth rates, and an ability to … high-burn severity sites. From those samples, they reconstructed and examined over six hundred bacterial genomes — … was performed at the University of Colorado Cancer Center’s Genomics Shared Resource, which is supported by the Cancer …

… genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is often reduced compared to that of a free-living organism. First … superphylum of extremophilic archaea first outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While most DPANN … directly involved in enabling the Nanohaloarchaeota to gain access to  Hrr. lacusprofundi host cells to obtain essential …

… toward the DOE’s interest in harnessing the crop toward producing sustainable alternative fuels Igor Grigoriev, Simon … this past year, through programs including the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program and the DOE Office of Science …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers … throughput. “The JGI synthesis project was the spark that started it all,” Blaby-Haas said. A more apt name for a Jane … in complementary ways to investigate this protein domain. Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s NSLS-II used …