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… fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is collaborating … used for systemic orthology to enable use for both cacao functional biology and breeding.     … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities dedicated to … Click to view a downloadable copy of the sponsor prospectus … Keynote Speakers Jim Collins Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kristala Prather Massachusetts Institute of …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to … how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … heads the Single Cells group. She has also served as the Functional Genomics Department Head for the Environmental … methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … the Ecological Society of America. He’s interested in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and … Wilbanks has served on review panels for the JGI’s Functional Genomics CSP and the JGI-EMSL FICUS programs and …

… Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging … Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley. Dr. Pennacchio received his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology helps scientists … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi … Clarissa Nobile, investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and the  microbes that make them. It’s known that aerobic fungi, like … using magnetic fields to diagnose electronic structure and functionality on the atomic level, was generated at JBEI and …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to test … on thiolases, a superfamily of enzymes found only in microbes, which make carbon-carbon bonds. This ability is …