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… number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand … a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the …

… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from … samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to … Nature Communications 7:10476. Google Scholar … LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career …

… a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium … of California, Merced. Woyke received a 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement , …

DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … from the warm, well-lit surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m … help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms …

Institute, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project … Minds, 2014-2023 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Science, …

… students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems … on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for biofuels and bioproducts. Andrew Nelson of the Boyce …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza of …