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Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in … can be further explored for novel functions. In the current study, the team combined the CETCH cycle with a …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

… genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new analysis … the family tree for Lentinula. Within those samples, this study also tracks the enzymes these fungi use to break down …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …

… molecular capabilities and state-of-the-art next-generation sequencing to enable biological discovery by the JGI and … They apply Lean Six Sigma practices to process optimization and development approaches, testing various platforms to see what works best for applications. The team works hand in hand with the Project Management …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental and energy challenges. But not all scientists have … and her own as an early career researcher. “We were able to study hydrocarbon biosynthesis at a scale that would …

…   The JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, … in defense, nutrient acquisition and communication. Studying how these compounds are biosynthesized and their …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes …

Institute, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and … Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists …

Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral …

… with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research Division.. As a postdoc, her research focused on stable and …

Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, functional annotation and methylomics) that run on microbial genomes and metagenomes. He also works on automating intra-department …