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Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the … define, quantify, and functionally characterize microbial diversity. The Symposium will also focus on experimental …

Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial … this year. And today we have our conversation with Professor Alison Narayan, from the University of Michigan. I … made it onto our list is because we wanted to have diversity. And so we wanted a profile across that protein …

A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … by our research team surveying the genomic and phenotypic diversity across the natural range of switchgrass found that …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions … they are considered to have a substantial influence on the global carbon cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of …

… in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accountability (IDEA) Chairs Council.   … Bias Certification 2020-present, Project Management Professional (PMP) Credential Graduate Certificate, UC Santa …

… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink. Summary As global temperatures rise, so do instances of extreme weather … of warming oceans on the microbial populations and the global carbon cycle. Tracking large-scale marine events such …

You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and … including the genomic dynamics of biofuel-producing fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, …

Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, … large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) … in: sustainable biofuel and bioproducts production, global carbon and nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. You …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … and fermentation processes for vitamins, insecticides, fungicides, platform chemicals, cosmetics and new crop … ), Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Diversity Committee Member (2015-2016), Society for …

… efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … techniques, the platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples in … BP, Olson HM, Purvine SO, Salamov A, et al. Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. Proc …

JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … is interested in understanding which species of mycorrhizal fungi are important for poplar plant health, in part to …