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Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more … that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and … in this area, by means of theoretical lectures and seminars as well as practical hands-on sessions in bioinformatics and …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum … made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its …

In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists … Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into other crops.  …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. … designed to attract specific catches. A similar technique has been developed by researchers led by Tanja Woyke at the … by protein in vitro expression and mass spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay. The work was  reported in  The …

The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place January 12-16, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from the DOE Joint … Institute (JGI) and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 509. Stop by and chat with …

Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large DOE-funded research … McGivern BB et al. Decrypting bacterial polyphenol metabolism in an anoxic wetland soil. Nat Commun. 2021 Apr … … Metabolomics Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes … environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 encompasses four subgroups, adapted … transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms that SAR324 and other microbes use could inform …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …

Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of … and thrust lead on PNNL’s Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the … user facility operations and expertise in mass-spectrometry-based metabolomics and lipidomics to make recommendations to …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get … they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the … By complete sequencing of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work …

On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) … the world. We work with start-ups and mature companies, as long as the data are not proprietary. In addition, the … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …