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… 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 …

… Pathogens , a team of faculty and researchers describe a workforce development program for higher education that … Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). The JGI and KBase are both supported by the DOE Biological and Environmental Research … students developing skills in fungal biology and genomics. Fungi can be better understood through reference genomes, …

… 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 …

… 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 … C. reinhardtii on PhycoCosm …

… 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 …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the Lab, the Sustainable Garden Club, hosted a DIY Succulent Workshop and Plant Sale. All year, the JGI helps support … National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, … brings several of these approaches together into the same workflow, then uses a machine-learning model to give its …

… 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 … User Facility and the DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, are supported by the Office of Science of the USA Department of …

… 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 …

… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for … 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 …

… 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 …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … convert it to usable organic compounds. However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert to form the … This research was supported in part by the Allen Distinguished Investigator …