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… species to grow better than its closest relative S. paradoxus at high temperatures (39°C/102°F). The Impact One of the … DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, aim … a way to map associations between genotype and phenotype using a strategy called reciprocal hemizygosity analysis via …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … mining, empowering research collaborators to take on ambitious synthetic biology experiments. A recent special issue of … analysis of specialized metabolism in bioenergy crops: current progress and challenges , details how an …
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… ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches using statistical analyses to continuously refine and improve the process of finding novel Cas … and Management.” So begins a passage from Doudna’s book about her meeting with Banfield. (Banfield’s recounting of …
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… model to study drought tolerance in perennial grasses using Panicum hallii (Hall’s panicgrass), by generating two … for developing methods for converting plant biomass into sustainable fuels for cars and jets. By studying a close … to switchgrass. Summary Rising global temperatures are causing extreme weather events, ranging from prolonged …
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… 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 … Council grant (ERC 637675 ‘SYBORG’), as well as the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office …
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… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to … how engineered environments contribute to greenhouse gases,” Kaze said. “It’s an exciting time in the field …
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… specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden drops in salt levels, enabling it to take in more nutrients to … yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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… 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 bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and Bifidobacterium, …
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… 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 representations allow homology …
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… data policies. Since completion of the HGP, the JGI has sustained its commitment to uploading sequence data generated on behalf of its user community to NCBI as well as to the data portals that … the ability of the principal investigators of approved JGI user projects to publish the primary report of their data …
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… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … cycling takes place only on a microbial level. Previous studies focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in winter months, … This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian …
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… Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … fellow Ben Cole on a project involving bacteria in Arabidopsis plant roots. At the same time, Lawrence worked with …
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