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… and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the … CRISPR Cas9 knockout mutants to observe and investigate how transporter proteins regulate the production of root …

… deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  microbes resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s …

… virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

… The JGI welcomes three new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, … six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the …

… Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe … and plant-microbe interactions in various environments to improve crop yield, and developing a platform for …

… the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists … capability that is desirable in the microbiome field due to its high recovery of single-cell genomes. This is key to better understanding all the organisms that live in our …

… Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from …

… Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range. But at what cost?  A … we also hoped to use this unique opportunity to quantify how transitions to higher ploidy could be generating these … More genome copies in switchgrass leads to increased climate flexibility …