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… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … genome (Rm ATCC 52813) as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes project. As reported in the November 29, 2017 issue of … This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of …

… On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI … of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that … of the proposals. Upon approval from JGI reviewers, the DOE project managers review the proposals. The proposer of …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the … microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We took … group, and Ivanova leads the Functional Annotation team. MAGs significantly expanded the estimated diversity of …

… a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across … DOE Office of Science National User Facilities in a single project. …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … microbial communities periodically at different depths. In order to determine the genome structure of SAR324 cells and … out that, without the JGI, the discoveries made in this project wouldn’t have been possible. Scientists hadn’t known …

… Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple … meant most genes in sorghum occurred roughly in the same order in sugarcane. To create this reference sequence, the … The JGI sequenced half of the 4,500 BACs sequenced for this project that were colinear to the gene-rich part of sorghum …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed Margulisbacteria, and had found they were …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … partnership had become a “model” of sorts at the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to contribute towards a diverse workforce and scientific community (working …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … recently deployed CRAGE to rapidly label  E. coli  in order to monitor population dynamics in co-culture. These … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the Lab, the Sustainable Garden Club, hosted a DIY Succulent Workshop and Plant Sale. … now IGB-wide ZERO Waste Initiative began its most ambitious project yet: a special recycling program to recycle lab …