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… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … this affects the growth and survival of the microorganisms that live there. A Communications Biology article … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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… training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal … which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he launched scale-up of algal genomics … Algal Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …
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… ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches using statistical analyses to continuously refine and … and Management.” So begins a passage from Doudna’s book about her meeting with Banfield. (Banfield’s recounting of … al. A thermostable Cas9 with increased lifetime in human plasma. Nat Commun. 2017 Nov 10;8(1):1424. doi: …
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… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to … impacts on wetland microbiome composition and metabolism, work on which she will expand with her study of microbes …
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… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … nearly five decades. In these frigid systems, where organisms higher up in the food web like fish do not exist, … cycling takes place only on a microbial level. Previous studies focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in …
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… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be … algal genomes sequences are available on the JGI’s PhycoCosm portal. … This work was funded by the US National Science …
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… cells. The Science Studying the genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic …
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Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins …
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… how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades: Gilliamella, which mostly resides in the …
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… workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid sequence into a smaller, constant-length vector using deep learning. Vector …
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… single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was recently published in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Career Research Program (ECRP) award, which is also focused on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics …
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The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That organisms make use of cellulose and hemicellulose is …
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