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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 …

… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to … ( magna cum laude ) PhD, Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography …

… to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Facilities (FICUS) program for fiscal year 2026, in … user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; …

… 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 , …

… viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over the world, scientists have discovered giants among viruses. Now categorized in their own phylum,  … on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses. The …

… Olufemi Isimikalu, Todd H. Oakley, BJ Philmus and Aaron M. Roshotte; [Below] Paul Scesa, Kathleen Scott, Tiffany … Benjamin Woolston. ] Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from … systems to convert renewable feedstocks into advanced biofuels and chemicals, and harnessing biomineralization …

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

… 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 …

… 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 …

… at the JGI, 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 and led annotation … Biology, Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Organisms, Moscow, Russia Postdoctoral …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been … of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific … of California, Merced. Woyke received a 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement , …