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… The team has three subgroups: Synthetic Biology Lab : a user science group dedicated to user project design, … automations for DNA design, assembly and analysis Overview of biodesign products The JGI Biodesign platform enables users to validate hypotheses … BOOST provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, …

… snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the … Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user facility at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the … between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and engineering. She …

… ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae … feedstocks that can thrive in saltwater mitigates concerns about diverting resources such as arable land and fresh … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …

… Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with … The new improved genome assembly generated through the JGI’s Community Science Program will help support targeted … ID: 508017, Myburg, Wegrzyn, Borevitz) conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those … send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through …

… summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee Call,  Stephen Nayfach and  Nikos … Kyrpides , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . The following guest … have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  …

… his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the … binding sites and which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, …

… The Science In a recent Microbiome paper , scientists focused on the conifer needle microbiome. The phyllosphere, … pine, Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce–to learn more about conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… 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 … and growth.  This study builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and others like …