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… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer …

… microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park over time, researchers have discovered and characterized a novel … Earth; the iron-oxide microbial mats at Yellowstone offer researchers an analog for studying early Earth conditions. … the JGI’s Community Science Program , the team used metagenome assemblies, transcriptomes and single amplified …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to … been downloaded thousands of times, receiving excellent feedback from the general research community. It can be  …

… tolerance, and other traits that make it a viable candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled … using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin produced a …

… Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program , which awards graduate students … influence carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. His work centers on samples collected on Mud Island – “it’s …

… Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity … of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research community.  Published January 17, 2025 in Science … All of the data are publicly available in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank …

… Additionally, 40 percent of the proposals were submitted by researchers who had not been a primary investigator on any … Biological and Environmental Research (BER) initiatives in bioenergy crop improvement and terrestrial carbon … writing the New Investigator proposal, and receiving feedback from reviewers, was invaluable in preparing the …

… at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The team’s research at both the JGI and EMSL was enabled by the … for User Science (FICUS) initiative, which allows researchers to more easily integrate the expertise and … project was supported by a grant from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and the University of California, Santa …

… many plants, including agricultural staples and candidate bioenergy feedstock crops, are recent polyploids. Crop breeders have … traits. Given the importance of polyploidy in plants, researchers have sought to learn the origins, evolution and … DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and …

… symposium represents a unique opportunity for students and researchers in the viral ecogenomics field to exchange ideas … Joanne Emerson (UC Davis) Kris Locken (Zymo Research Corp) Vivek Mutalik (LBNL) Peter Weigele (New …

… years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and … with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and Exabiome … to enable large-scale analysis. The story of a massive metagenome assembly for a time-series experiment from the …