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… 25th anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … organizations. From field research and wet lab experiments, to computational modeling and virtual projects, hear intern …

… with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse genetics to test those hypotheses. From 2011 – 2015, she … between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and engineering. … PhD, …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities …

… technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a … factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro transcription … complex as well as a sigma factor. While all bacteria encode at least one principal sigma factor responsible for …

… the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis 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 …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads … design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and … function. … B.Sc. (HONS) – University of Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and … for agricultural products.  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods … to produce good yields under water limiting conditions. Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum (EPICON) is a …

… one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for scientific applications developed at Berkeley Lab. Dr. Chen is currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … DOE works with the National Nuclear Security Administration to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and was …

… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …