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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage The … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …
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Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought … clearly have unexpected chemical potential. … This research project was supported by a grant from Santa Barbara Cottage …
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Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the … availability to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria Nature Communications 15(1) 3167. 2024 Simirenko et al ., … 10, 2743-2769. 2015 Blaby et. al., The Chlamydomonas genome project: a decade on. Trends in plant science . 19: 10, …
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… highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI …
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A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … At ORNL, Lawrence brings a bioinformatics expertise, a combination of biology and computer science, to reveal clues … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the …
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Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus Neurospora … them to efficiently break down the wide array of simple and complex components present in plant biomass. This is of … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, …
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In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write … (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State …
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To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …
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