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… of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … or no oxygen, life had found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation. To better understand … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven … Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as … summer projects. Each intern also mentioned what they loved about their internship. Efosa Omorogieva : “The entire …
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… crop yields. The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … Carey, now at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, reported that high quality genome references are now … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …
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… began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … shared their findings in Communications Biology . They reported that the heatwave caused the microbial populations …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of … the effort that led to the work published in Scientific Reports . Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure …
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… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … yet abundant subsurface organisms was recently reported in Nature Communications. The work was co-led by … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …
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… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human as … explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have never been studied …
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… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … information as well as of important descriptive metadata about each strain. “This has been a very fruitful …
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