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… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the … now IGB-wide ZERO Waste Initiative began its most ambitious project yet: a special recycling program to recycle lab … abandoned planters, planting donated plants and swapping tips on growing greenery. With sustainability in mind, …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … environments. He’s been involved in several plant genome projects through the Community Science Program. As a UEC … She’s also participated in the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project and has an interest in cross-disciplinary …

… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  … through the  CSP New Investigator call . It is the first project to have successfully evolved into a full-scale … the Tiny Earth collection. The work builds upon a pilot project to sequence antimicrobial-producing strains. …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers … complex, along with a regulatory accessory protein and multiple metallocofactors. Given the MAR system’s potential to … way from sequencing to functional characterization, and a project like this — an exciting project — we were able to …

… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by … four genes, including one with no prior known function. The project’s success demonstrates how to sharpen the …

… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA … analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More recently, these long-reads have been applied … assemblies by JGI and uploaded to IMG? A:  Depending on the project setup, we can include as part of our data analysis …

… Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hey there, and welcome to the first … My name is Dan Udwary. I – as well as my co-host, Alison Takemura, whose voice you’ll hear in a minute – we work … in partnering with us, we want to hear from you! We have projects in genome sequencing, DNA synthesis, …

… proposals have been accepted from 70 full submissions based on 92 letters of intent. Additionally, 40 percent … Susannah Tringe, JGI User Programs Deputy. “These new CSP projects accelerate our efforts to characterize … same mistakes,” he said. “Although in my specific case the projects are different for the two proposals, I can see the …

… Flavia Winck Vischi, Jennifer Wisecaver, Yaqi You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the … researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research projects from PIs who have not led any previously accepted … these researchers will investigate a diverse array of projects, including the genomic dynamics of …

… As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with … work to create FAIR datasets to maximize returns on these advances. Over the last two decades, Stable Isotope … comparable data with useful and accessible metadata multiplies these possibilities, and maximizes returns from the …

… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with … compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … than 400 cultured rumen prokaryotes from the  Hungate1000 project . They also used the tool to predict possible …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. The planet’s microbial diversity is … of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) initiative. “This project has helped to define the current shape of the …