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… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology 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 … make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek … sequencing machines at maximum) maintained by a workforce that numbered more than 100 at its peak, all the machines … JGI’s Operations Deputy Ray Turner. How extensive? Consider that the process of moving 250 people and their equipment …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose that eventually yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to … skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and the  microbes that make them. It’s known that aerobic fungi, like …

Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … on interactions underlying plant adaptation in different environments. He’s been involved in several plant genome … by providing input on JGI policies and capabilities that affect users. Robinson is a staff scientist at Los …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial … advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes can be used to create compounds more efficiently …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … communications, their schedules were filled with trainings that they later reported were incredibly valuable to their … Tomas Tyml and Frederik Schulz, Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments Theo Loreaux and mentors Simon Roux and …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing … we’re featuring some scintillating genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing …

Researchers from the JGI recognized for their “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the … Ivanova and Simon Roux, along with data from a consortium that included Susannah Tringe and Tanja Woyke, were all … the study highlights the vast functional diversity of microbes by looking at protein function within them. …

Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and … of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint …