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… Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three … positions at University of Florida and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of eukaryotic algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to developing a deeper understanding of …

… he served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the … switchgrass transformation pipeline and, in collaboration with industrial partners, generated hundreds of transgenic … tolerance, and the mechanisms by which plants interact with their microbiomes. In addition, his group conducts …

… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of … evaluates multiple predictions to reliably match viruses with their archaea and bacteria hosts. The Impact Within the …

… to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific adaptation mechanisms they had identified. For … and later plant lineages that independently expanded. Along with NLRs, the diversified peroxidases are associated with …

… to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make use of it, it would change the … is well-established: Across all life forms and with little exception, organisms have figured out how to …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial … carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during and after The … organic matter scavengers. This preliminary model aligns with several other studies on the potential effects of …

… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Recently, Lawrence, in collaboration with researchers from ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National … internship and investigations began.    Lawrence was paired with program co-founder and JGI mentor, Zhong Wang. …

… JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of … Input & sequencing Q(uestion): How much DNA is needed for “regular” vs the ultra-low input library creation … the 1Tb cap. PacBio metagenomes are currently sequenced without pooling, which yields ~ 180 Gb of data per library. …

… Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … to become much simpler; instead of aligning sequences with popular, but computationally costly approaches such as …

… Since early 2020, people all over the world have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  But for researchers who study viruses that infect organisms much … major roles in a vast range of globe-straddling phenomena. For example, viruses which infect the photosynthetic …

… plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat … by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon … kingdom. Specifically, researchers found that female plants within a species tended to weather pH stress from peatlands’ …

… of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This … His research focus includes engineering of non-model yeasts for production of biofuels and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe and …