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… a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … there were pieces from multiple boxes, including some duplicates, to sort through in order to form a single …

… early days as a Harvard postdoc. While she had intended to work on cyanobacteria, fate stepped in when a fire at the lab relegated … to library research for three months. While reading up on photosynthesis, she stumbled upon an interesting …

Science category Plant Program Library Construction Group Lead Jane Grimwood (at HudsonAlpha), Cross-Field category … on over the last year: Kerrie Barry and Jeremy Schmutz worked with a community of switchgrass researchers to … an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, section Nigri. Aspergillus fungi play important roles in areas ranging from industrial …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories around the world, … across nine countries. Learn more about the Hungate1000 work led by AgResearch collaborators Bill Kelly and Sinead …

… student in the Quantitative Systems Biology (QSB) Group under the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). During his … to solve research problems. In Visel’s group, Olmstead worked with postdoctoral fellow Ben Cole on a project involving bacteria in Arabidopsis plant roots. At the same time, …

NOTICE Information from this server resides on a computer system … used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of …

… cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a … that discovery, DGRs have been found in other viruses, bacteria, and archaea. But how widely distributed they are, … known, throws open the doors to characterizing how DGRs work at the molecular level. Scientists might then harness …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of … and biofuels . This first report of their work, supported through the Emerging Technologies Opportunity … senior authors. “But this has been done most commonly in bacterial-based systems, and so one of the things that I …

… deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in … and repair themselves or eliminate waste. The Impact The bacteria, archaea and other microorganisms of the microbial … engineering,  biofuel production and more. … This work was funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium … data gave the team unprecedented resolution to study the network of genes that contribute to the metabolisms that …

… more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two … to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the … partner, either a eukaryotic microalga or a cyanobacteria, is known as the “photobiont.” Photobiont and …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This … In just two months, the students participated in networking workshops, data carpentry hackathons, and also made … “ Exploring the epigenetic basis of pathogenicity in bacteria” Erika Maquiling : “Being a JGI intern means going …