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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 … and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Academy Fellows are eminent leaders in the field of … As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this …

… 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 three …

… comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of … BGCs in IMG/ABC (Atlas of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters) by 31%. ( Listen to this JGI Natural Prodcast episode on genome …

… lipid production. These insights into  Y. lipolytica biology and lipid metabolism furthers the U.S. Department of … genes were essential to  Y. lipolytica . They identified 1,377, or 17.5 percent, of  Y. lipolytica ’s genes to be … rife with false negatives: that time, the team only found 359 genes to be essential. The team also tested for genes …

… 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 than … 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 … helping them identify and describe the functions of the biosynthetic gene clusters that produce them. The Impact … 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 Energy … 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 …

… are all available on the JGI’s plant portal  Phytozome v13 . Researchers from the following institutions were also … Berkeley; Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (Austria); Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and …

… because they’re very productive even in high heat while C3 crops have become less efficient at photosynthesis, a … human health. So there’s a major question: how to turn a C3 crop into a C4 crop. There should be a master regulator … to health, agriculture, learning, and commercialization. Opened in 2008, HudsonAlpha’s vision is to leverage the …

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