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A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his … as a computational biologist. My primary future goal is to form a startup.” …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS … projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy … DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for support from 53 received through a joint research call. …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … PI on this project. “I view the program as an excellent platform to build collaborative research initiatives.” Yasuo …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to … The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity …

The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network … Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … State University, which archives and makes available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 …

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for … molecular features to large ecosystem-level processes for the first time. By collecting data from 27 different …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … — scientists can better fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published … with potential applications in industry and biotechnology for the production of  clean energy . Summary Arbuscular …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … 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 …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … by Jeremy Schmutz of the JGI and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Phil McClean of North Dakota State …