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A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or …

The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network … Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) , successful applicants can also access resources at NEON. This includes … more about BioSANS. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021 for the FICUS proposal call. Q&A from the Webinar: …

Marianne is an affiliate researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant … environments and is interested in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …

Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, … a list of researchers whose proposals were accepted for 2025. Utilizing the JGI’s resources, these researchers will … 9, 2025, for inclusion in the November 2025 review. You can also find more information about the JGI’s  various …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with … shift from phototrophs to archaea when sunlight becomes scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust … and offers new clues into a unique environment in the natural world. The Impact From the polar regions to the deep …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing … pectin and hemicellulose. While these two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of … One other finding that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey …

… 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research … … … … … … … … … … … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Polymorphisms Created by Transposable Elements … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship … Cross Species …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US … microbiomes—who the core microbes are and what they do—can help researchers develop predictive watershed scale … Biological and Environmental Research (BER) grants DE-SC0023084, DE-SC0021350, and DE-AC02-05CH11231. Partial support …

… [subhed -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing … with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other … feedstocks, algae are tiny but mighty. An analysis in the 2017 Bioeconomy Report estimated that the United States has …

With a background in experimental and computational surface … equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to facilitate … 72, 411. Gordon et al., 2020.  Gradual polyploid genome evolution revealed by pan-genomic analysis of Brachypodium …