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A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. … aim to inform the engineering of stable, synthetic microbial communities to take advantage of their joint …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … These days, Session is starting his lab at Binghamton “studying polyploids and transposon evolution, expanding on … in more species, as well as modifying this method to study other types of problems surrounding differential …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research … and experimental approaches with the aim of eventually studying virus-host dynamics in nature. In the last few …

Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most … a secondary metabolites portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay … JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel … sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA …

… genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme … a limiting factor – before or after flowering. For the study, the team grew two sorghum varieties: one that …

Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can …