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… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade … working with researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of …

… and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day … Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene families involved in adaptations seen in later …

New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging … provide users with capabilities to create genomics-enabled insights into a vast range of organisms and ecosystems. These kinds …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired … to the lack of robust tools available for carrying CRISPR into microorganisms. CRAGE (Chassis-independent … a lab environment, shining a light into this “biological dark matter.”  It also offers CRISPR a point of entry. By …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership … with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, … of Rambo’s research focuses on how viruses influence carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. His work centers on … school plans. “The SCGSR gave me some great insight into my career path,” he said. “I much preferred the …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a … has opened the door for more incisive investigations into how lichens function. One of their abilities that’s  …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get … could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. Additionally, these fungi play a role in the global  carbon cycle . As decayers, Lentinula fungi access carbon …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National … Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of …

Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … in: sustainable biofuel and bioproducts production, global carbon and nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. You can … understanding natural communities important for carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and climate change; and …