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… cow stomach. Rumen – and its microbes – are really a powerhouse. Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy … to more sustainable energy production.  However, less than 10% of the microbes found in any environment can be grown in … expanded into three other universities. You can learn more about how JGI data supports higher education in this JGIota …

… across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry … walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there are soil saprotrophs, which … in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host and …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … she said. Listen to study co-author Dan Udwary talk about genome mining using the GEM catalog in  this episode … and press a button to build a model from our database of mappings between biochemical reactions and annotations. We …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors … us in filling or updating geographic information for nearly 1,100 samples,” said Reddy. Kaushal also reviewed and … tasks we assigned.”       Click here to watch a video about the Biotech Partner summer interns at the JGI. What …

… disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus … a disease ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an …

… all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these … the Department of Energy (DOE) colleagues. “At that time (1986) 98% of the human genome was thought to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources to sequence it,” Patrinos said. After many …

… forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a … … This work was supported through a USDA NIFA award (2021-67019-34608) to M.J.W. FTICR-MS analyses were performed …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and unknown. The challenge remains to learn more about what microbes are present in any given … spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay. The work was  reported in  The ISME Journal . While the screen caught …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer … method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort … virus-host dynamics in nature. In the last few years, mapping the planet’s viral diversity has advanced …

Several sessions will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes …

… that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of … and efficiently harvest the energy they store.      Since 2012, O’Malley has worked with the JGI to understand the … complexes that work like assembly lines for efficiency.  In 2021, her team saw that four strains of anaerobic fungi …

Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user facility at Berkeley lab. She earned her PhD in Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de … Niyogi KK, Schmutz J, Theg SM, Blaby-Haas CE, Merchant SS. (2021) Widespread polycistronic gene expression in green …