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… complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die … O’Malley and her team plan to use genetic tools to boost production and isolate the compounds. Although what …

… user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have … Submitted proposals addressed one of the following focus topic areas: Biofuels and bioproducts, Biogeochemistry, and … and soil interact below the ground, influencing the production of microbial greenhouse gases and volatile …

… (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the … For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” she will work with …

… and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science … to living on a changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary … in between.  KAROLINA:  Plants can use a little bit of both pathways. Some plants can appear to be almost entirely C3, …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to fill in these gaps of knowledge. In … publications ,” emphasized Markus Göker, who managed the production of genomic DNA at DSMZ for GEBA-Actino and …

JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers … materials, which could be useful for industrial biofuel production, and multicellular development. “DAP-Seq is the …

We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. But some hungry insects can … are taking a look at how these critters process plastic, to improve plastic recycling by following their lead.        …

… of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane … that seemed mostly likely to be engaging in methane production to confirm that indeed, they were. The work was … JGI and EMSL. New Methane-Makers Have Alternate Metabolic Pathways And there is something special about these new …

Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying … our group. It’s enabled us to accelerate gene, enzymes, and pathway discovery approaches and provided the resources … chemicals, such as ethanol and acetone . To help reduce production of byproducts, the JGI DNA Synthesis Science …

… 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI users.  Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of …

… genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and … analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences, among … JGI at http://bit.ly/JGI15summerinternsvids . Click here to check out photos of the interns. For this second year of …

… oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new … temperature to rise. “What needs to be done is reducing the production of CO2 — this is the first and foremost important …