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… Register here Book your stay at the conference venue This inaugural event will bring together researchers across major ecosystems and disciplines who are developing and applying laboratory ecosystems …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since …

… From August 21-23, 2023, attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment … the rhizosphere but also abundant everywhere in the earth’s soils. While she admits that it “0.25% doesn’t seem like a … actually quite significant knowing that there’s one billion bacteria in a teaspoon of soil.” She added that overall, …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a … on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse … Handling Editor, Journal Experimental Botany, 2022 – present …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI … that infect organisms much smaller than humans, like bacteria, this power is not surprising at all.  In fact, … think of – animal intestines (including humans), grassland soils, even deep-sea hydrothermal vents – and …

… fees: Regular attendees  (LBNL and external): $400  Industry: $450  Students and postdocs (including LBNL students and postdocs): $250      Hosted by … together to develop recommendations for cultivating new bacteria and archaea revealed by a recent genome census . A …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat … species, some sphagnum may prefer the dryer, more elevated soil of the hummocks or the more water-logged hollows below. …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! …

… has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, … five previously uncharacterized prokaryotes, including two bacteria isolated by their lab. KBase was used to rapidly …