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… strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging partnerships to advance foundational … for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director of the MPI …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play …

… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers …

… work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of …

… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … from previously understudied clades, establishing their evolutionary relationships and leading to the discovery of …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated …

Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being … (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and …