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… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals … how chronic warming is altering how microbes interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon … evolved from a white paper approved through JGI’s CSP New Investigator call to a full-scale submission. She aims …

… (BNL) led a team that  identified a protein , PtrbHLH011, within poplar involved in plant growth, lignin production, and disease resistance.  The Impact With increased lignin and iron, engineered poplar can be … Partly enabled by the JGI  Community Science Program New Investigator program , BNL scientists focused on the …

… and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In fact, lipids can make up more than 90 … of researchers sought to disrupt every gene in the genome with CRISPR-Cas9 in order to interrogate each one’s … to fix a defect in the approach: CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the …

… such tools has been a collaborative effort. For example, with support from the  Exascale Computing Project , the JGI … experiment from the highly-studied Lake Mendota is told as part of a three-part series of our  Genome Insider … “When we proposed to do the Mendota time series, we knew that it was going to be more samples and more data per …

… and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has … group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he has started a new position as the Senior Manager, Machine Learning at …

… Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group. “Turns out … expanded the estimated diversity of Bacteria and Archaea With phylogenetic diversity standing in as a representative … Seshadri said. “It’s a reminder of the urgency to cultivate new microbial species.” Targeted Explorations for …

… Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep … to become much simpler; instead of aligning sequences with popular, but computationally costly approaches such as … chromosomal sequences in mixed-genome samples) with a new tool called MetaGNN (Prashant Pandey of CRD). The …

… Retracing how the dry rot Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic … to see how the Serpula fungi have adapted in an environment with little to no competitors for resources. On wood blocks … himantioides outcompeted all the brown rots it was paired with, aggressively colonizing more of the wood blocks than …

… livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason … engineering of biofuels. Since 2010, the JGI has partnered with researchers around the world to map out genomes of … than DNA alone. “It has become a tool widely used,” Leahy told JGI recently when we caught up with her. “… We are very …

… Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant … of the fifth summer of its flagship education program with UC Merced. JGI Director Nigel Mouncey and program organizers Wang, Visel and Sindi, along with UC Merced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center …

… Montes (Major: Applied Math; Faculty Mentor: Dr. Arnold Kim)   “It is a beautiful thing, that our young campus … receive from our faculty.” Cristhian and Bryan interned with Zhong Wang and Tanja Woyke, respectively. Both of their … was featuring in a video about the importance of mentoring with Tanja Woyke and her research group – watch that video …

… in 1990 when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with the National Institutes of Health. The DOE works with the National Nuclear Security Administration to … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.   Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …