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… , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for … and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Academy Fellows are eminent leaders in the field of …

… in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, where she leads a research group … Greenham stepped down at the end of her term. In late 2023, the JGI launched a solicitation for nominations for …

… comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for … in a wide range of research fields. A public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of …

… lipid production. These insights into  Y. lipolytica biology and lipid metabolism furthers the U.S. Department of … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these … by the Office of Naval Research under grant  N00014-15-1-2785 . JW acknowledges additional support from the National …

… Improving sugarcane breeding methods using molecular biology techniques has been hampered by the crop’s highly … as a reference. The final sugarcane sequence generated is 382 Mb; 25,316 protein-coding gene models were predicted with more … of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. …

… sex chromosomes. The results were published in  Genome Biology . The team found that the shrub willow’s W … to correct mutations. This process, called gene conversion, helps maintain the integrity of the sequences. The … expanded in a palindrome and shown to be undergoing gene conversion in willow. This gene regulates the expression of …

… CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary … in overcoming this obstacle when it hit the scene in 2019. Now, that power is poised to grow exponentially by … JGI researchers was published April 2022 in Cell Chemical Biology . When it comes to insect killer P. luminescens …

… From August 21-23, 2023, attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of … Dianne Newman is a Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and the Executive Officer for Biology and Biological …

… discovery that turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel …

… Berkeley; Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (Austria); Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and …

… of plants have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, … to health, agriculture, learning, and commercialization. Opened in 2008, HudsonAlpha’s vision is to leverage the synergy …

… at Montana University and associate director of its Thermal Biology Institute. He’s been investigating methanogenesis …