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… bacteria evolved could help inform engineering microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  …

The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … from the atmosphere than current natural processes and use it as a sustainable resource for making high-value bioproducts. As a …

Dehalococcoides mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical … by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are hazardous waste areas that require cleanup and long-term … are ongoing to complete cleanup.  The process that was used to clean up the toxic chemicals is commonly known as …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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: …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …