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… in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint … When Lawrence embarked on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand … into the world of evolutionary biology. And around that time, a collaborative internship program between the JGI and …
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… has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of … discovery and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni … Nature Communications , 2023 Zhao and Yoshikuni, Discovering untapped biochemistry in microorganisms from …
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… program and current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and … in this publication during her summer internship in 2018. She selected one of the projects posted by JGI fungal … in the biofuel and synthetic biology fields. In a living cell, triplets of nucleotides, or codons, dictate which …
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… on the global carbon cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or hydrogenotrophic (most common); … these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these …
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… in Metabolic Engineering , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these … sgRNAs) appeared to be rife with false negatives: that time, the team only found 359 genes to be essential. The …
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… ) on PhycoCosm tree with several sequenced genomes. 2. Q: How exactly EcoGroups are built? A: EcoGroups are … e.g. erg-1 (instead of the Gene ID etc., which is sometimes not easy to find out) A: If these names are assigned … team. 26. Q: For many of these imported genomes, you mentioned they are filtered , what does/will this filtering …
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