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… Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to … react differently in response to the environment? We set out to explore these questions and solve the mystery … could be generating these observed patterns. As many other plant species have natural cytotype variation, we also hoped …

… for election to the UEC. Members serve three-year terms and can serve no more than two consecutive terms. In September, … Davis and Kristen DeAngelis of University of Massachusetts-Amherst, who represent the scientific areas of plant genomics, DNA synthesis and metabolomics, …

… and Leader at Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis. During his time in industry, Dr. Mouncey directed R&D teams that … 100213 Nayfach S et al. 2021. A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nat Biotechnol. 39:499-509 Hurley A et al. … An Action Plan for American Security and Prosperity in the Age of Biotechnology …

… searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to finding a single snowflake … (Berkeley Lab) describe a computational pipeline that can specifically scan for those snowflakes, or RNA virus … datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then looked into many more …

… genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . The Science Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many … sorghum and maize, sugarcane can grow on nutrient-poorer soils and does not need to be planted annually. The modern …

… ways to accelerate bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis of sustainable … that the cells are no longer growing,” Rasor said. “So they can push more of the carbon that we feed into a product … jump in the rate of product formation.” This was the first time CRISPR-Cas9 had been used to modify a cell’s genome in …

… aims to explore applications in the life sciences that can be ported to the GPU architecture. A GPU hackathon is a … Laboratory (ORNL) to make sure our computational workload can leverage future HPC systems – our data and compute … Proposals are due March 1, 2019 for the JGI hackathon, set for May 6-10, 2019, in Walnut Creek, Calif.  Click here …

… There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their roots, creating a lively zone …

… mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The … lab. And I find this really valuable because in this time that I’ve been in my PhD program, I’ve been really … helpful and I, I just have so much more confidence and I can say that I’m an app developer and that’s amazing.  …