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… This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions …

… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its … and fermentation processes for vitamins, insecticides, fungicides, platform chemicals, cosmetics and new crop … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the … Foundation, and the JGI Synthesis Program under FP00005685. In addition, M.D. acknowledges funding from a National …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, and researchers are interested in learning … 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for …   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. … and DBI-2047598 to K.A. We thank the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (Community Science Program award 339, …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over the … This work was conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area counties. The JGI, located at … in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of …