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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … he’s interested in finding ways to boost visibility of the CSP to encourage more plant proposals and provide feedback …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually … Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be found throughout the …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … This means they hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. They also produce a …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … of fungi by James et al. and Sekimoto et al . In both studies, however, Olpidium was unexpectedly grouped with … until seven years later. In 2018, as members of the ZyGoLife consortium , my colleagues and I decided to re-visit …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to … Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

Natural Prodcast is a “fireside chat”-style podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Natural products, secondary … research, “Natural Prodcast” serves as an important line of communication to the scientific community. Host Dan …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … All three  Brachypodium  grasses have small genomes, short life cycles and can be easily transformed, traits that make … line is simply not true based on previous pan-genome studies. Thus, we must compare multiple polyploid genomes to …