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… Michelle O’Malley and Tom Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying … presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel production. …

… Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology … focus includes engineering of non-model yeasts for production of biofuels and renewable chemicals, developing …

… site. The chemical PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress … . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research consortium led by the University of …

… See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program … calls. These documents have been shared with permission from the PIs who drafted them.  … Linking lignin engineering to drought stress resilience: RNA-seq and metabolomic … Elucidating Sphagnum microbiome genetic interactions for …

… Diatoms, a group of tiny algae, are also known as “living … of their silica shells. But what genes are responsible for such mesmerizing exteriors? Setsuko Wakao and Kris Niyogi, biologists at both UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, aim to find out. …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and … Program (CSP) .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted … on microalgal communities across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome …