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… (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees …

JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through … technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. In doing so, it is our ambition to further develop a more diverse and inclusive pool of talent for career opportunities at JGI and Berkeley Lab. …

… highest honors! Tringe, a microbiologist, was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial … communities in carbon cycling, in interactions with plants, and as drivers of methane production, nutrient … Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s Microbial …

… race was being waged. In this JGI@25 video, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … the people and resources from these three national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next … years, and in collaboration with researchers at the Stanford Human Genome Center, JGI staff worked around the clock …

… fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” the Hornburg fortress had withstood all attacks – until the Battle of … Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign …

… manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to … thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt levels … They are also the primary producers in the marine food web, forming the base of the food chain and providing energy for …

… the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way …

… of standardized fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs) designed for precise manipulation and reproducible experimentation of … dynamic interactions, offering an unparalleled platform for exchanging ideas, forming collaborations, and charting …

National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. … giant filamentous bacterium, along with its life cycle. For most bacteria, their DNA floats freely within the … which is a process analogous to photosynthesis for plants.” Another outstanding question is whether the new …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … the National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s … that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other …

… out to many researchers with the hope of getting support for a research project for his class of 18 juniors.  He got turned down … with inspiring her to get into science and wanted to pay it forward. Defining a Diverse Research Topic After a video …

… it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University … on the global nutrient cycles regulated by their hosts. For example, microbes that capture and store carbon in the … is known about virus-infected microbial cells that are transformed into virocells, and how the outcomes of these …