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A Natural Mechanism Can Turbocharge Viral Evolution
Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows … this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at …
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An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria
A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial … is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI …
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Trent Northen
Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. … the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic … mass spectra with statistical significance. Nat Commun. 13, 2510 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30118-9 …
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Soil Microbes Trade-Off Biogeochemical Cycling for Stress Tolerance Traits in Response to Year-Round Climate Change
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Time‐series metatranscriptomes reveal conserved patterns between phototrophic and heterotrophic microbes in diverse freshwater systems
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Identification and characterization of a skin microbiome on Caenorhabditis elegans suggests environmental microbes confer cuticle protection
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Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes
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Computationally Classifying Fungal Lifestyles
As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Dothideomycetes . The data allowed the team to reclassify 25  Dothideomycetes species, and also provides more …
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Identifying the Microbial Cleanup Crew at a Superfund Site
… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the ERD process.  … The work (proposal:  10.46936/10.25585/60000717 ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …
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A Grass Model to Help Improve Giant Miscanthus
Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. … multiple chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene … Biosciences Institute, the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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Applying Viral Genomics Expertise to Understanding the Human Virome
JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for … and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of …
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Natural soil microbes alter flowering phenology and the intensity of selection on flowering time in a wild Arabidopsis relative
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