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… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … sequencing, they were able to identify the target genes of 11 sigma factors in Streptomyces coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the …

… (UC), Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR), US Department of Agriculture P­­lant Gene Expression Center, … Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in …

The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins … U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National Energy …

… (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … is part of the JGI Genome R&D Group and is one of more than 100 scientists and systems engineers involved in …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions … metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, for publicly available metagenome data …

Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth … the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved …

… messenger RNA, which encodes a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental …

… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … were selected to carry out part of their thesis research at 12 host national laboratories or facilities between 3-12 … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to …

The JGI welcomes three new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full … community outreach efforts with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind. Microbiome ecologist Shade became Director of …