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… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of … cycling and carbon storage. For example, the marine algae  Emiliania huxleyi, a microeukaryote, forms large … giant viruses. Isolating and co-cultivating these viruses has enabled findings on host range, morphological …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for … Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]. Dr. Charles Gawad has been supported for this work by a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … to overproduce lipids — an important phenotype for biofuel production. They identified four genes, including … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, … poplars with optimized lignin, engineering heat-resilient algae for industrial applications, and developing RNA … Call is focused on genomic science projects that address biofuel and bioproducts production, leveraging efforts …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery … changes. Summary Researchers have been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture … Opportunity Program in 2013, a team of researchers has been working on improving methods for isolating and …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first … the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for biofuels and bioproducts. Andrew Nelson of the Boyce … of California, Berkeley aims to redesign and engineer algae by identifying the algal regulators that could boost …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility … a focus on microbiome sciences and fungal symbioses. He has worked closely with both the Fungal & Algal Program and … research foci have been genomics, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology of non-model microbes, and …