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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …

… have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … Combining genome and transcriptome information allowed the team to have a much more comprehensive picture of …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: … that aerobic fungi, like mushrooms, have some ability to slowly break down lignin (think of a fallen, decomposing tree …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at …

… complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … in herbivore guts. A deeper dive into the genomes and follow-up experiments, recently reported in the Proceedings of …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed … methods.  “The microfluidic devices we recently developed allow us to produce multi-monodispersed droplets in a …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and … exactly water becomes a limiting factor – before or after flowering. For the study, the team grew two sorghum …

… design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and … National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at … Award for Research Excellence … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

… more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets … And also specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the … are a little bit stronger in computing, so I was kind of worried coming into the, the internship that maybe I …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program ( DGE-1110007 ). SA, AB, and MB were …