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… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Tanja Woyke , 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 … methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go … the Ecological Society of America. He’s interested in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants … (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology helps scientists … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and … Clarissa Nobile, investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the …

… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of … allows for revealing patterns that would be invisible when studying species in isolation. The comparative power has … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The microbes that play key roles in cycling nutrients such as …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms …   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial manufacturing.  …

… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … particularly, what happens in the rhizosphere where plants, microbes and soil interact below the ground, influencing the …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns …