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… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … months. Their proposed research projects address scientific challenges central to Office of Science mission areas … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to …

… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … three strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research … ancestry of these algae and land plants. Researchers identified key genes associated with stress responses and …

Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital …

The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a … the discovery of more than 30,000 DGRs in this analysis, a 20-fold increase over what was previously known, throws open … used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy …

Now, an international team of researchers has identified the major metabolic roles of constituent microbes, … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the …

… workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid … and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. … Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope … method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. …

… are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the … boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, … suite, as well as sequences from the Global Ocean Virome 2.0 dataset based on open ocean samples. CheckV identified a …

… demonstrated the efficacy and potential of regulon identification by in vitro transcription-sequencing (RIViT-seq) … sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … efficacy of RIViT-seq, researchers recently characterized 12 sigma factors and were able to identify the associated …

Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … or early November, at which time they will receive certificates. With Olmstead and Lawrence back on campus, Visel …