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… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 … proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then use computational tools to analyze … also approved to learn more about the roles of diatoms in carbon fixation and in aquatic food webs. Finally,  …

… fees: Regular attendees  (LBNL and external): $400  Industry: $450  Students and postdocs (including LBNL students and postdocs): $250      Hosted by … together to develop recommendations for cultivating new bacteria and archaea revealed by a recent genome census . A …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! …

… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, … five previously uncharacterized prokaryotes, including two bacteria isolated by their lab. KBase was used to rapidly …

… Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , … assemblies, revealing the roles of microbial communities in carbon cycling, in interactions with plants, and as drivers …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more than just a funny word. The … of antibiotics, and a deeper understanding of the bacteria potentially holds the key to discovering new … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao …

… 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 biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … play a crucial role in how an organism processes both carbon and nitrogen. This research team combined … our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive …