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… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … After isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the …

Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … Wisecaver, Yaqi You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI … such as metatranscriptomics and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific … applications, Wint also developed and tested a gene sequence-based predictor of gene expression levels using …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … approach: CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, …

… our 2024 Community Science Program Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals … relevant to the DOE’s mission, and I look forward to seeing their outcomes.” The annual CSP call is focused on … of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) missions in: sustainable biofuel and bioproducts production, global …

… gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be … uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The … value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including amplicon and metagenomic … more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from microbial and …

… 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through early introduction to the resources and disciplines advanced by …

… yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their … value as both biofuel feedstock and their role in carbon sequestration. Poplar trees grow quickly in a variety of … generated is 25 terabytes in size. Resources for genomic sequencing, analysis and characterization were provided by …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to …