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… microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … biofuel production. … The work (proposal:  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000691 , and  …

The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … them to test composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director … Office of Science User Facility (contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231) with T.J.E. as grantee. J.-C.B. acknowledges the …

… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed …

Dr. Grigoriev joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal … Algal Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …

… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of their … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to …

… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A … was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project …

… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … three strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research … found in modern plants. They discovered that ancient algae already possessed genetic tools to cope with environmental …

Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital …

The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a … the discovery of more than 30,000 DGRs in this analysis, a 20-fold increase over what was previously known, throws open … U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National Energy …

… 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 bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  …

… 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 … is part of the JGI Genome R&D Group and is one of more than 100 scientists and systems engineers involved in …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies grants W911NF-09–D-0001 and W911NF-19-2-0026 (MAO), US Army Research …