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… design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. …

… unless otherwise noted): December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating … Proposals December 9  4:15pm PT (online) Town Hall on how the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User … 15 12:51pm Joan Damerow, Berkeley Lab (short talk): “How do we make interdisciplinary sample data more FAIR?” …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a … CRISPR-Cas9 in order to interrogate each one’s function. However, the team first needed to fix a defect in the …

… in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October … efforts!” cheered JGI’s Operations Deputy Ray Turner. How extensive? Consider that the process of moving 250 … are filled and stacked for transport. When considering how to do similarly large moves at the main Lab campus, …

…   The JGI is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 … Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries … dam removal to Antarctica’s photosynthetic mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and contribute to global …

… we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … . This provided a framework essential to understanding how these plant pathogens cause disease and how to control …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made … the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be … abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have wondered, how can SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a …

… we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … Lab researchers working with the JGI successfully simulated how successive waves of microbial populations degraded the …

… of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, … and giant viruses offered the researchers insights into how they might interact with their hosts, and how those … genomes in the megabase range. The study’s lead and co-corresponding author Frederik Schulz, a research scientist in …

… bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are … down polysaccharides. But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful … bacterial clades can metabolize hemicellulose and pectin. However, the two specialize to an extent.  Gilliamella  …

… that could help researchers track cell development and how they determine identity, as well as the roles played by … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “This represents the largest … are hallmarks of different cell types.” His contribution to the paper also aligns with his DOE  Early Career Research …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science … for  biofuels and other bioproducts. Finally, understanding how brown rust disease resistance works in sugarcane could … a full representation of the diversity present in R570 but shows the genomic effects of breeding practices that …