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… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … months. Their proposed research projects address scientific challenges central to Office of Science mission areas … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to …

… The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … energy. The MPI team ultimately aims to develop an artificial photosynthesis pathway that would more efficiently … from the atmosphere than current natural processes and use it as a sustainable resource for making high-value …

… microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has …

… via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two bacteria,  Dehalococcoides mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical … by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are hazardous waste areas that require cleanup and long-term …

… rapid environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden … yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be … ancestry of these algae and land plants. Researchers identified key genes associated with stress responses and …

… Now, an international team of researchers has identified the major metabolic roles of constituent microbes, … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the …

… workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid sequence into a smaller, constant-length vector using deep learning. Vector representations allow homology …

… data policies. Since completion of the HGP, the JGI has sustained its commitment to uploading sequence data generated on behalf of its user community to NCBI as well as to the  data portals that … the DOE mandate to provide data access widely to the scientific community as soon as possible after data generation …

… the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly identify polyploid subgenomes without needing to know the … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is actually a vital source of protein in many … a 473-million basepair genome of the common bean, identifying genes related to disease-resistance, flowering time, … trait. Traditionally beans have had a shelf-life about roughly 6-9 months before their color begins to …

… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … cycling takes place only on a microbial level. Previous studies focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in … with a combination of marine and freshwater below. This stratified mixture holds oxygenated water up top and anoxic …