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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 …

… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … outline the questions they asked – and answered – in the study that recently appeared in the Proceedings of the … ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team surveying the genomic …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant … Sonia Vargas and mentors Tomas Tyml and Frederik Schulz, Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments Theo Loreaux and mentors …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … maize. By deciphering the zealexin synthesis pathway, this study makes it possible to harness the protective function … maize, which has been largely overlooked, according to the study’s senior author Alisa Huffaker, a biologist at the …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most of … is typically observed, but to the “TACK” superphylum,” said study first author Bojk Berghuis. “This provided us with …

… has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for … , 2023 Wu et al. Structural characterization of a soil viral auxiliary metabolic gene product - a functional …

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 … can be further explored for novel functions. In the current study, the team combined the CETCH cycle with a …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from … the family tree for Lentinula. Within those samples, this study also tracks the enzymes these fungi use to break down …