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… which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils across different burn severities look like a year after a fire. It also opens questions about what …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in … National Laboratory, used single-cell sequencing to sequence both a cell’s genome and detect accompanying viral … that viruses don’t diffuse well through the mat, so they’re likely constrained to a local population of host cells. If …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science … group. His research focus includes engineering of non-model yeasts for production of biofuels and renewable chemicals, … Wu et al.Metabolic engineering of low-pH-tolerant non-model yeast, Issatchenkia orientalis, for production of …

DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … (2016) Comparative genomics of biotechnologically important yeasts.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113(35):9882-7. Kohler et … and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of  Schizophyllum commune . Nat Biotech.  2010; 28: …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome sequence resource of rumen microorganisms . Thanks to the … rumen microbes are awesome and this is just another example why.” …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … to recognize individual pathogens and pull them out, like fish on a fishing line, without harming the rest of the …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may … be that polysaccharide-degrading enzymes are secreted. It’s like giving everyone a fork — all strains can potentially …