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… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, … a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a … that biomass could serve as the starting material for a wide range of fuels and chemicals. To get to that …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access … genomics and synthetic biology, a team studying microbial populations in oxygen minimum zones identified SAR11 …

… Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive …

… Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research … in professional development enrichment activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages …

… JGI researchers demonstrate how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational science and enable …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other … . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … had not been known to produce flagella — propeller-like structures that enable organisms to swim around. However, …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of … summer. The JGI-UC Merced internship program was founded in 2014 with the goal of inspiring students to embark on a …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these …