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… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and … more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function … temperatures characteristic for polar oceans. In this study, they’ve cracked open the genome of another polar …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal … genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that … known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the …

… Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in … discovery pipeline and enrichment metagenomics for terrestrial protists. These approaches enable novel …

… JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  … 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals … proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then use computational tools to analyze …

… those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their 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 … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… Knockout experiments showcase potential for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at … Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy … x-ray bioimaging experiments were conducted to study iron accumulation and cell wall structure in the …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers have developed a genomic model to study drought tolerance in perennial grasses using Panicum … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports research programs for developing methods for converting plant biomass into …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic Sciences and Policy (for DNA sequencing and assembly); by a three-year …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern subarctic …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … around, regardless of malfunction or misplacement.  In studying this family of ATs, researchers found that these …