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JGI Earth Month: Healthy Streams, Nutritious Microbes?
In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th …
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JGI Hosts GPU Hackathon in May
… in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility … assistance from mentors and a team to port their code to a new architecture. Proposals are due March 1, 2019 for the …
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JGI-KBase Panel at SACNAS
Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific …
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Evolution of a multi‐step phosphorelay signal transduction system in Ensifer: recruitment of the sigma factor RpoN and a novel enhancer‐binding protein triggers acid‐activated gene expression
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Marine Microbe Contains Multitudes
A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms …
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JGI@25: The Little Alga That Could
… is a single-celled alga with a unique place in evolutionary history. Retaining ancestral features of both … to those who study it) a powerful reference organism for studying photosynthesis and cell motility. It’s also a … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference …
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The genome of Polaromonas naphthalenivorans strain CJ2, isolated from coal tar‐contaminated sediment, reveals physiological and metabolic versatility and evolution through extensive horizontal gene transfer
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Duplications and losses of genes encoding known elements of the stress defence system of the Aspergilli contribute to the evolution of these filamentous fungi but do not directly influence their environmental stress tolerance
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Help from Citrus’ Bitter, Hardier Cousin
… clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably … never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us …
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Better Genome Editing for Bioenergy
… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In fact, lipids can make up more than 90 …
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An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria
… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … this Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Newscenter story and this piece in  Current Opinion in …
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JGI@25: The Human Genome Project, or the JGI’s Origin Story
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … race was being waged. In this JGI@25 video, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …
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