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A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research … (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 …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating … microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. Summary Hot springs are … A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a … 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 …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. … 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 …

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 …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards … at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … 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 …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results … Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows … 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 …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor … 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 …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … 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 …