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… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … which mostly resides in the bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … that she’s held onto over the years. The DOE brought together the people and resources from these three national … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.   Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry to seven. Doudna was recognized for her work on CRISPR-Cas9, technology described by … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … than presumed. After all, they’re able to produce enzymes highly efficient at making use of those other two … Barbara  recently published a paper in  Nature Microbiology offering irrefutable evidence that lignin can, in fact, …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program , which awards graduate students the opportunity to …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the … He was one of the eight JGI researchers on the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list, and has appeared on the list …

… excited to announce the fifteen scientists selected for our 2024 Community Science Program Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … substantial influence on the global carbon cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or hydrogenotrophic (most common); …

… UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described … collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in her first microbial …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary To interrogate the close partnership of endophyte  M. elongata and … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… to submit white papers to the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July … really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard … [DNA Synthesis Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave back in 2016.” Alper’s first approved JGI proposal came through the …

… a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant advances compared to the 2014 Eucalyptus grandis reference genome that has been … assembly generated through the JGI’s Community Science Program will help support targeted genetic breeding of …