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The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are … genome references are now available for male and female plants of fire moss. Most notably, the work revealed that …

… work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. …

The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe … National Laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source II, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Stanford … initial target was a family of proteins that appeared in plants and algae and contained a similar region —  a domain …

Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After … process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes … store carbon, filter water, and support all kinds of plants and animals, but with climate change driving more …

… in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a … small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, … are now available in a  public Narrative , which provides shareable, reproducible workflows. “Metabolic modeling is a …

… for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns …

… to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development … Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  … B.S. in … Biosciences Inventor of the Year 2019 R&D100 Award 2016 Berkeley Lab Director Exceptional Achievement Award …

Terpenes are made via a tangled network of enzymes in plants. To better pinpoint the biosynthetic routes that … these DNA synthesis capabilities that push the frontier in areas like plant secondary metabolites, as well.”  Another … expression in the organism Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can utilize carbon oxides, including the greenhouse …

… participants in state-of-the-art analytical methods in this area, by means of theoretical lectures and seminars as well …