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… at the JGI, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and … Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance … with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the …

… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is reduced in … Excellence Fund to Sentinelle Nord is acknowledged. Additional support was by way of the Fonds de recherche du Québec …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. … able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already demonstrated CRAGE as a versatile engineering system that …

…   Register here  Registration fees:  Early Bird rates available now General & Berkeley … Genome Institute, the 5th Viral EcoGenomics and Applications (VEGA) symposium will take place November 18-19, 2026 on the UC Berkeley campus. Organized every two years since …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley … let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. … visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course. …

… bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) led a team that  identified a protein … within poplar involved in plant growth, lignin production, and disease resistance.  The Impact With increased lignin and iron, engineered poplar can be used to develop bioproducts for …

… Berkeley is responsible for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work focuses on the development of new applications utilizing a variety of technologies to improve the JGI’s …

… The Science Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, and researchers are interested in learning how … microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic … Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …