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… Nikos Kyrpides Dan Rokhsar Simon Roux Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, reported on over the last year: Jeremy Schmutz was part of a … (Watch SCGSR fellows Nick Reichart and Ian Rambo talk about their experiences at the JGI.) Igor Grigoriev hosted …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) … Program, and coordinates the development of the virus and plasmid workflows for the National Microbiome Data … symposium provides networking opportunities and fosters discussions on how to capture and characterize viral diversity, …

… and the Molecular Foundry (TMF) for their collaborative user program. The portfolio of research proposals integrates … Institute and Molecular Foundry are DOE Office of Science user facilities. They provide researchers leading approved … in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. Users and members of their research teams work onsite at TMF …

… but is not well understood in fungi. A team of researchers reported on the largest analysis of 5mC distribution across … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office …

… a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based …

… to right are: [Above] Sara Branco, Asdrubal Burgos, Posy Busby, Hao Chen, Jay Chen, Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang … optimized lignin, engineering heat-resilient algae for industrial applications, and developing RNA barcoding systems …

… The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … from the atmosphere than current natural processes and use it as a sustainable resource for making high-value … provided the Erb lab with enzymes that led to a previously reported synthetic CO2-fixation pathway called the “CETCH …

… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … also opens new avenues for utilizing these organisms in sustainable practices, such as biofuel production and natural …

… 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,  …

… (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … 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 …

… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … cycling takes place only on a microbial level. Previous studies focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in winter months, … This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian …