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Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in … groups evolved further, to four major groups: a lineage in Australasia and L aciculospora, L. raphanica and L …

… are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and … phenotype. We have recently identified resident bacteriophages (viruses infecting bacteria) in the plant … simiae WCS417. One suggested function of these phage genes is the modulation of their bacterial host to …

… to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … said Susannah Tringe, JGI User Programs Deputy. “These new CSP projects accelerate our efforts to characterize …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene … survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … luminescens and its secondary metabolites work could yield new tools for pest control. Secondary metabolites are highly …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both …   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days … need. Karolina is working to better understand what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a … gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the … and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In fact, lipids can make up more than 90 …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … to an increasingly detailed portrait of molecular features triggering morel fruiting. They include: A diverse …