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… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the … produced by microorganisms — out,” said JGI user/collaborator Michelle O’Malley, a chemical and biological engineer at …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the … morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s … B.G.P. was supported by the Marine Biological Laboratory, by the National Science Foundation’s XSEDE computing …

… (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on … impact on global carbon cycling and climate is estimated to be larger than any other single plant genus. Peatlands … project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond to increases in temperature and elevated concentrations of …

… Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated … a more targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and … Summary The traditional shotgun metagenomics approach to learning more about environmental samples starts with …

… annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled capabilities for … and AI for large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at Predicine, an NGS-based …

… efficiency for users requiring multiple omics methods to examine microbial chemical production. The Science Soil bacteria in the genus Streptomyces are nature's chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex …

… JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, … user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects … User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …

… UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science … further along in their academic career enjoyed the chance to develop new skills needed for their PhD research. And for … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship …

… on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with … in their careers.   Listed below are the interns, their mentors, and their summer projects. Each intern also mentioned …

… JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The accepted proposals come from 80 … 63 percent of the accepted proposals come from investigators who have not previously been a principal investigator …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved … — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the … The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for …

… Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe … and plant-microbe interactions in various environments to improve crop yield, and developing a platform for …