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The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on … Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial molecular biology Post-doctoral positions  – …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …

Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     … The U.S. Department …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo … in Israel, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a … AT, Blaby-Haas CE. (2024) Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins. Nature Rev Micro 22, 63. Davidi L, …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the … of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science . …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … this spatial transcriptomics data captured molecular information from both plant cells and fungal cells. “Because … of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science . …

In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer internship experiences have influenced their careers in science. Hear more about what …