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… 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 … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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… To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a …
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… has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology Pathway Engineering group. His research focus includes engineering of non-model yeasts for production … Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …
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… 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 … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has …
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… of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ … the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. …
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… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … the communities studied. The datasets are available on the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) …
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… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry …
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… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program . Representative software … and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …
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Program presents… Eyes on the Prize – Launching & Sustaining Startups in Synthetic Biology Who’s Invited? All Berkeley Lab Employees and Affiliates. When: August 29th, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Panel … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …
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… (BioSANS) instrument when applying to the FY2022 EMSL-JGI FICUS call for proposals. Presentations from: Scott Lea, EMSL’s … “Solar Energy Conversion in Cyanobacterial Membranes” Marcus Foston, Washington University in St. Louis on “Integrated …
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Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began … reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples from common gardens growing across the … involved researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, HudsonAlpha, and the JGI. Building off this work, …
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