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… S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Through multi-platform stories and outreach efforts, … aims to broaden awareness of and access to JGI public resources and the DOE mission, as well as help cultivate the … collaborators.  Ms. Ballon is a molecular biology-trained science communicator with extensive experience shaping …

… to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. … goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the approach they used to …

… underscores its value and importance in the fabric of our lives. In the United States, cotton production centers … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and … uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … step, numerous genes for antibiotic resistance and secondary metabolism would have been incorrectly attributed …

… identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have … of crystalized samples cloned and synthesized by the JGI, scientists have begun the complex process of uncovering the … second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase …

… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus … been clear. Now, to answer these questions, a team led by scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at …

… growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual … effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the tree’s physical … as secreted proteins. However,  M. elongata  seems to encourage the plant to have leakier cell walls and weaker …

… broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, and researchers are … applications. The work has been enabled through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) . Cavicchioli and his … Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US …

… when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break … proteins in the samples were then isolated and sequenced by scientists at the Environmental Molecular Sciences …

… that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been unable to see beyond the … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … diversity has doubled, but in reality it could be three or four or five or tenfold more out there.” Digging Further into …

… genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers … about their ability to adapt to changing environments, scientists have turned their attention to the pangenomes of … of the  Marchantia pangenome, scientists developed a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific …