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… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved … asked to “KonMari” their spaces, a decluttering method focused on keeping only items that bring joy (and are necessary …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable bioeconomy. Researchers and farmers could improve …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two …

… The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then … microbes. Summary The CRISPR-Cas system is an immune mechanism in bacteria that confers resistance to foreign genetic …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported under Contract No. …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a … the study is essentially chewing food to help  microorganisms thrive — and those microorganisms affect a lot of the … Research (BER) and is a contribution of the Scientific Focus Area “Phenotypic response of the soil microbiome to …

… technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for … to get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than ever before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion … computing infrastructure and analysis. This way, JGI users — both primary, data-generating users, as well as …

… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and … between microbial populations. The work appeared in The ISME Journal . Members of the Dunfield lab collected samples …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when nutrients are … By deciphering the fruiting-related decomposition mechanisms of morel with multi-omic approaches, our results … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of … every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in the Spatafora lab describes the effort …

… off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held … growing extracts without oxygen in ruminant fluid — which smells terrible —they were able to isolate four strains: …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced … a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins …