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… one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s … one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s … Division and then to Chief Operating Officer for the Joint BioEnergy Institute and Deputy for Operations Biological …

… innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow …

… contains about 6% of the human genome . They discovered genes linked to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, … about 2% of the human genome. They were interested in genes involved in repair of DNA damage, and those associated … 3% of the human genome. They wanted to learn about the genes implicated in the development of breast and prostate …

… they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …

Biology and Biochemistry, top 1%, by Clarivate Analytics 2020 van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics 2020 Elected fellowship in the American Academy of … et al. 2011. Metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes from cow rumen. Science 331, 463-467. Swan et al. …

… coupling Cre-lox and CRISPR-Cas9 systems. PloS one. 15: 11. 2020 Blaby & Cheng, Building a custom high-throughput … and future challenges. Synthetic Biology . 5: 1. 2020 Nguyen et. al., ManiNetCluster: a novel manifold … Biology JGI Co-chair, People Stewardship committee (2020-2022) UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Postdoctoral …

… in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science … changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden drops in salt … RNA to analyze gene expression, to determine which genes are active under different conditions. This was …

… will provide new cornerstones for research in the areas of bioenergy and biomedicine, as well as biotechnology. NeLLi …

… found a gene likely responsible for sex determination. Many genes differentiate the shrub willow’s sex chromosomes, so the researchers investigated poplar for which genes might be shared in common between poplar’s Y — poplar … in willow. This gene regulates the expression of other genes in response to cytokinin, a key plant hormone, making …