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… in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help … at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Y. lipolytica … could be used for renewable fuel. In fact, lipids can make up more than 90 percent of the microbe’s dry weight. In …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … more than doubled the number of protein families known up until now, and identified many novel structure … the collective power of more than 26,000 microbiome datasets, all accessible through the publicly available  …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how … be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants that have increased fruit and seed yield. …

Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics … as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development of … plants interact with their microbiomes. In addition, his group conducts comparative genomic research to understand the …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … eminent leaders in the field of microbiology and are relied upon for authoritative advice and insight on critical issues … Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Merced. Woyke received a 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot … She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to …