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Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been … methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in … for Science Programs. “It clearly speaks to the enormous impact her contributions have had on the field of microbial …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of … Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but …

… metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …

… clades of RNA viruses and determines novel viral gene functions that may impact hosts and host populations. …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new … insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis … Grosjean used the JGI-developed  guideRNA and Sequence Extraction Tool (gRNA-SeqRET) to produce knock-out mutants …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … microbe can utilize carbon oxides, including the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, to make valuable chemicals, such as … on thiolases, a superfamily of enzymes found only in microbes, which make carbon-carbon bonds. This ability is …