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… Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest growing trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing plants to harness for bioenergy. In …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha …

… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our … challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years …

… Interns contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab protocols at the bench to applying artificial … shape their host phenotype Graduate interns Adeola Fagbayibo Mentor: Thasneem Banu Frousnoon Project:  Optimizing …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions …

… to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate … known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us lemons, kumquats, … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… The JGI has diverse capabilities in: DNA and RNA sequencing, Sample and library preparation, Biodesign and pathway engineering Mass spectrometry based metabolomics Below is a … Q1  (median/75th percentile*) DNA Synthesis Constructs <5kb in size Single gene or multiple small genes assembled to …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least … order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility …

… Since 2018, Mr. Wilson has served as the Systems Engineering Group lead.   The group is responsible for developing … BS in BioEngineering, University of California, Berkeley …

… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade … applied strategies other than photosynthesis to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in …