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… number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … results showed that these fungi may be able to provide tools beyond biomass breakdown, extending into biochemical … — is  building on this work to explore an enzymatic ‘toolbox’ of biomass-degrading capabilities for anaerobic …

… Berkeley is responsible for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work focuses on the development of new applications utilizing a variety of technologies to improve the JGI’s …

… bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire. …

… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their … intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in native hosts, the …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of … terpenes play key roles in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions. Terpenes are also economically … production perspective. By using genomic database alignment tools, researchers searched for TPS genes in C. citriodora . …

… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served as a … genomic resources that fostered the widespread adoption of Brachypodium distachyon as an experimental model for the grasses. In addition to … Brachypodium distachyon is a small annual grass that is well suited to …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, …

… In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting … that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses are also able to play a long game. In a …

… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for … describe a workforce development program for higher education that develops skills in fungal biology and genomics.  … in parallel. While KBase does not currently have all the tools for complete processing and analysis of fungal data, …

… multiple programs had their own goals to achieve, they constantly collaborated with each other on new ways of presenting and researching science. …

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

… To understand how organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund study organisms …