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… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated … can be applied to any transcription factors or regulatory proteins that control transcription. Summary Transcription …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 … users at our 2022 Annual Meeting, Wessler discussed the revolutionary work of Barbara McClintock, who discovered … mutations that, for example, turn maize (where McClintock originally discovered TEs) into corn starch. “There are lots …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee … , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . The following guest piece was … are at fending off the infection, and how long this evolutionary arms race has been going on.  Answering these …

… National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at University of Florida and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of eukaryotic algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to … B.Sc. (HONS) – University of Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … With the help of this information, the researchers found evolutionary relationships between methanogenesis, … methane, a subject of great interest in environmental and evolutionary microbiology.” Inskeep will be presenting a …

… sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … a broad range of activities from proposal intake to publication. Information is also obtained and cross-checked …

… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. … knockout mutants to observe and investigate how transporter proteins regulate the production of root exudates, which …

… JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced … JGI research priorities.” U’Ren, who studies ecological and evolutionary factors shaping the assembly of fungal …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … sites.” The technology expresses the transcription factor proteins from a DNA template amplified directly from either …

… hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers at two U.S. Department of Energy national user facilities – the DOE Joint Genome … in the development and biotechnology applications of various biomaterials. These efforts align with BER …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … that directly influence plant phenotype, such as secreted proteins. However,  M. elongata  seems to encourage the … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …