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Tuning of Gene Expression in Clostridium phytofermentans Using Synthetic Promoters and CRISPRi
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A High‐Throughput Investigation of the Binding Specificity of Carbohydrate‐Binding Modules for Synthetic and Natural Polymers
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Cost-effective urine recycling enabled by a synthetic osteoyeast platform for production of hydroxyapatite
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Webinar: MycoCosm Tutorial
… Learn more about JGI’s  MycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of … for genome sequencing, or only “true fungi”? A(nswer): Our focus is on fungi, algae, plants, and the microbial … MycoCosm and Fungal Program pages ( https://jgi.doe.gov/our-science/science-programs/fungal-genomics/ ). You can also …
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The genome of the polyextremophilic yeast, Naganishia friedmannii, reveals adaptations involved in stress response pathways, carbohydrate metabolism expansion, and a limited DNA repair repertoire
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Game On: High School Students Drive Everglades Metagenomics Study
… the Florida Everglades to help train the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience … class at Florida’s Boca Raton Community High School. The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) , a DOE Office of Science User Facility. She took special interest in it …
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Busting the Unbreakable Lignin
… fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it … yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential …
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Doubling Down on Known Protein Families
… that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been unable to see beyond the … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … diversity has doubled, but in reality it could be three or four or five or tenfold more out there.” Digging Further into …
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High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant
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Refinement of the “Candidatus Accumulibacter” genus based on metagenomic analysis of biological nutrient removal (BNR) pilot-scale plants operated with reduced aeration
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Marchantia Pangenome Highlights Adaptive Nature of Plant Lineages
… genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers … about their ability to adapt to changing environments, scientists have turned their attention to the pangenomes of … of the  Marchantia pangenome, scientists developed a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific …
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Kjiersten Fagnan
… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, … for scientific data analysis. In 2014 Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a focus on adapting JGI … the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s Data Science and Informatics department head.  Dr. Fagnan is also …
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