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More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of … Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from … investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the non-profit science …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated … Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to develop a process for more … view of a population’s genetic makeup and identifying viruses interacting with these populations. Development of …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … through the lignin.  Researchers led by Michelle O’Malley’s lab at the University of California at Santa Barbara  …

Marianne is an affiliate researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   … often tedious and resource intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in native hosts, the complexity of cloning and expressing a given BGC …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … team, which included scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. … in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar …

Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of …

Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a … genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research scientist at … on the Leadership Team of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative and served as President of the Society for …