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… our  2022 Annual Meeting . The meeting was a hybrid event, with guests joining onsite at the Integrative Genomics … delved into algae blooms and the alga-viral interactions within them; and Susan Wessler of UC Riverside, who … to more advanced therapeutic applications like overcoming antibiotic resistance and discovering new ways to …

… can more easily convert plants into carbon-neutral biofuels . What’s more, many natural products have potential to … for polymers and commodity chemicals, as well as drop-in biofuels. This work shows that anaerobic fungi might be a new … in their hunt for anaerobic fungi. By growing extracts without oxygen in ruminant fluid — which smells terrible …

… , diversity exists in infectious cycles, as well, with viruses relying on different strategies for initiation, …

… addressed one of the following focus topic areas: Biofuels and bioproducts, Biogeochemistry, and Inter-organismal … features prominently among the eleven proposals selected with four focused on biofuels and bioproducts. For example, … Brodie and his colleagues have been running a soil-warming experiment in the Sierra Nevada mountain range since …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects related to understanding … of the JGI’s  Microbiome Data Science , leads one project with JGI colleagues Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux. Kyrpides … Program aims to better understand the viruses that coexist with humans – the “healthy” human virome - not just those …

… that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean occurring within the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass represents … normally craft a genetic clock based on its divergence with a  different species. However, eelgrass didn’t have a …

… challenges. Chlamydomonas is a single-celled alga with a unique place in evolutionary history. Retaining … both plant and animal cells, it shares nearly 7,000 genes with other organisms (a third of those shared by both humans … a postdoc in Merchant’s lab who is first author on an upcoming paper, discovered that in the original strain, a …

… that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” … two metabolic pathways “Up to this point, most phylogenomic trees have relied on only one korarchaeotal representative,” … Inskeep will be presenting a poster pitch at the upcoming NeLLi Symposium, discussing the “Distribution of …

… (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to make … University describe a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but then moves out of the cell … alternative approaches for manufacturing bioproducts and biofuels . This first report of their work, supported through …

… home office (garage). There, standing at a safe distance, with proper face covering, was JGI’s Administrative Services … luminaries included from the Berkeley Lab Directorate, Mike Witherell (Director), Michael Brandt (Operations Deputy), … safety and diversity and working together and making a welcoming and inclusive workplace. I think all of you have seen …

… Find recordings and recaps of these talks below, starting with Ari Patrinos. The Genomics Arms Race Ari Patrinos , … two kinds of scientific revolutions,” Ari Patrinos opened with this quote from Thomas Kuhn in his 25th Anniversary … project, which spanned nearly two decades, was filled with ups and downs, challenges and triumphs, and a lot of …

… The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do you want to find out what is in this … students the freedom to define the specifics. It took the coming together of many unlikely pieces across the United …