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… single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  recently published in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Career Research Program (ECRP) award, which is also focused on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics …

… ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae … and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. As any good cook … a clean energy economy is developing alternative sustainable fuel sources. Developing candidate bioenergy …

… those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things … collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …

… carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … work sets up protocols and pipelines that other teams can use around the world. These tools give researchers a way to …

… and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of … that provide insights into the nutrients that are being used and cycled in different environments. It also shows how environmental conditions may affect metabolic activity of microbiomes. This is key …

… for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two … evolved to deal with hot and dry conditions could help us to one day develop plants that are more drought-tolerant. … along their edges. KAROLINA : My work with the JGI focuses on a group of plants called yuccas. If you know Joshua …

… Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic … and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only around 30% complete.  Described in  ISME …

… of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, who discussed the exciting progress in gene editing made possible by … blooms and the alga-viral interactions within them; and Susan Wessler of UC Riverside, who discussed her work on … to realistically implement. CRISPR-Cas9, Doudna said, may work better and be more cost-effective. “There are still …

… have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  But for researchers who study viruses that infect organisms much smaller than humans, like … of important questions such as which organisms the viruses may be targeting or infecting, how well the targeted …

… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and … of social media networks where one social media group may have a relatively constrained set of friends, while …

… of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group … and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” focuses on anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …