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… viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to … shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary … and collaborate on solutions.  Compared with past efforts at the JGI, like IMG-ABC, and other academic …

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…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett … his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student … of my project, I wanted to incorporate that CSP, but also look at how viruses might be influencing the methane cycling …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers … Carefully read our proposal call description and ensure your idea is aligned Discuss your proposal idea … under the sequence cap? A(nswer): Proposals that are looking at multiple areas or multiple ways to answer …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and … — contributed to the ecological resistance of plants to the Earth’s ever-changing harsh habitats, thus allowing them to … and adaptations, scientists want to take a further look into identifying genes related to biotic stresses to …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene … origins of novel lineages elicits interest in cultivation efforts targeting understudied environmental samples. Even …

… to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology …

… feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying … — scientists can better fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy …