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… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern … to accelerate bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis of sustainable chemical …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … diversity can emerge from tinkering of a common set of enzymes.” Gribaldo will be speaking on “Exploration of …

Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel received his … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, … Deputy for Science Programs … Awards and Honors … Selected Publications …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the … of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and enthusiasts … — so researchers can easily explore the evolutionary and functional relationships among the different algae. …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the … of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and enthusiasts … — so researchers can easily explore the evolutionary and functional relationships among the different algae. …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process … heads the Single Cells group. She has also served as the Functional Genomics Department Head for the Environmental …

… communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with tracings of stable, heavy isotopes, SIP allows researchers to go … in a sample, to generate data about which organisms are active, and which microbes are eating what,  in the …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … genomics .” Understanding the nature and genetic basis of functional traits in sphagnum growth and decomposition is …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of this polar environment. This cycle suggests a reliance on …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … domains—of up to 8,500 amino acids in length. These were actively synthesized intact in the Nha-C cells. The most …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …