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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … mining, empowering research collaborators to take on ambitious synthetic biology experiments. A recent special issue of … helped LanzaTech researchers tame gene expression in the organism Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can …

Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental … Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a DOE Office of Science user facility. The work was partly enabled by the …

… gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA … of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … furthers the U.S. Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the …

The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins … injection of mutations in a particular gene might boost an organism’s fitness. Moreover, the discovery of more than …

… the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass spectrometry-based techniques, the … turnover, DNA-SIP for helping identify active micro-organisms within complex communities, and custom software …

… that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of … of years evolving tactics against potential threats. “Because plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really … microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by microorganisms — out,” said JGI user/collaborator Michelle …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced … genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of … every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in the Spatafora lab describes the effort …

… of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… in mass spectrometry-centered projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and … supporting the DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research user community in their bioenergy and environmental … State University, Bioengineering & Metabolic Biology … 2024 Berkeley Lab Recognition of Excellence Award 2016 R&D …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are … de Zaragoza, one of the paper’s senior authors. “It offers us the possibility to explore genomically the whole complex …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a … bacteria, millions of  microbes govern ecosystems. These organisms carry out important environmental processes like  …