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When “The Blob” Made It Hotter Under the Water
… event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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iPHoP: A Matchmaker for Phages and their Hosts
… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost … described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …
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Advances on genomics, biology, ecology and evolution of Brachypodium, a bridging model grass system for cereals and biofuel grasses
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Self-Buffering system for Cost-Effective production of lactic acid from glucose and xylose using Acid-Tolerant Issatchenkia orientalis
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Bright luminescence of Vibrio fischeri aconitase mutants reveals a connection between citrate and the Gac/Csr regulatory system
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Boosting Small Molecule Production in Super “Soup”
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … able to make the same amount of a product in just eight hours that growing cells take three days to make, which is a …
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Understanding Wildfire Recovery, Starting in Soil
… at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the … and growth.  This study builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful … for User Science (FICUS) initiative and used resources at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory …
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Shattering Expectations: Novel Seed Dispersal Gene Found in Green Millet
… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time.  “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene …
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A Better Way to Find RNA Virus Needles in the Proverbial Database Haystacks
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … system. “We then looked into many more samples and refined our methodology,” Neri said. “Our team grew and so did the …
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Matthew Kellom
Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in hard-to-reach places that …
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Analysis of Porphyra Membrane Transporters Demonstrates Gene Transfer among Photosynthetic Eukaryotes and Numerous Sodium-Coupled Transport Systems      
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Giant Bacteria Found in Guadeloupe Mangroves Challenge Traditional Concepts
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … in Menlo Park, Calif. In the June 24, 2022, issue of the journal Science, Volland and colleagues, including …
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