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Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due … edits affect functionality.  CRAGE allows for the transplanting of these BGCs from one organism into an alternate … applications for pest control and understanding how the pathogen uses insects for fuel.  The impact of the pairing …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. …

Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and … Exploiting algal NADPH oxidase for biophotovoltaic energy. Plant biotechnology journal . 14: 1, 22-28. 2016 Blaby et. … responses and overlap with other stress transcriptomes. The Plant Journal . 84: 5, 974-988. 2015 Zones et. al., …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: … designed to familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data and workflows for …

… recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for … test genetic hypotheses in species with large and complex genomes,” said Lovell. “However, new sequencing technologies …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … Baxter is a principal investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, where his group focuses on … decomposition. She’s also participated in the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project and has an interest in cross-disciplinary …

… of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the … and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and … enriching the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was also provided …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the … genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new … and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is … through the publicly available  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database, they successfully … has been no real analysis of protein families from metagenomes per se.”  Recently, other research teams have …

… internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer … in Quantitative and Systems Biology Mentor: Guohong Wu, Plant Comparative Analysis What effect has your summer …

… and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform how scientists can more …