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… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … confirmation bias, because it enables scientists to study how methanogenesis takes place in the context of the … They could just be switched off.” Yet, after extensive study, Hatzenpicher and his team were able to definitively …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more … optimization. Summary Life is all about balance. This study,  recently published in the  Proceedings of the …

… s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have … unique array of chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The … given sigma factor are inferred. Prior to this most recent study, only 12 sigma factors and 200 genes (or 209 sigma … to 399. Two of the 11 sigma factors addressed in the study were found to control more than 100 genes, one of …

Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of … and metabolism, work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? … of sustainable chemical products,” said Jewett, one of the study’s senior authors. “But this has been done most … graduate student Blake Rasor. He and Yi, one of the study co-authors, have maintained a regular shipment …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … to their economies. It also plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for …

Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … and metabolism, work on which she will expand with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport … lab at the University of Texas-Austin. Rambo will be studying the influence of viruses on carbon cycling in …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly … Characterization of p-hydroxycinnamate catabolism in a soil Actinobacterium. J. Bacteriol. 196, 4293-4303. Otani, …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … Facility located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to providing metagenome mining for computational analysis of the AT … around, regardless of malfunction or misplacement.  In studying this family of ATs, researchers found that these …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems …

… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed Margulisbacteria, … The research teams opted to collaborate on a single study, with Matheus Carnevali and Schulz sharing co-first …