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… Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in chemical … an alternative format for chemical synthesis in the absence of cell growth by isolating the soluble components of lysed … the yeasts received fine-tuning of gene expression through genetic rewiring with CRISPR-Cas9 that enhanced their …

… as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and … person needs establish the culture of workforce safety and diversity and working together and making a welcoming and …

… You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and … fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, and the metabolic pathways of algae. They will …

… for outstanding achievements in science, technology, and diversity/inclusion by the annual  HPCwire Readers’ and … Choice Awards . NERSC, JGI, ESnet are U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facilities. The HPCwire … that supports “an unprecedented assembly of environmental microbiomes.” JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer  Kjiersten …

… National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at University of Florida and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of eukaryotic algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to … B.Sc. (HONS) – University of Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular … in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse genetics to test those hypotheses. From 2011 – 2015, she …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical compounds that often … portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as IMG-ABC. That portal …

… fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 researchers working in 21 … available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform. Nikos Kyrpides and  Simon Roux …

… PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … bioremediate toxic substances has led to the development of cost-effective environmental cleanup strategies. Summary … to access the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. For example, the team has since …

… his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology … a method that enables high-throughput characterization of transcription factor binding sites and which has been … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this approach would be greatly increased by having the … by the Banfield lab in collaboration with the JGI), human microbiomes, natural oil seeps in Santa Barbara, Calif., and …