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Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range. … guest piece, postdoctoral researcher Joseph Napier from the Juenger lab and computational biologist Paul … by the number of 8X individuals that had been collected from field work. When viewing the full distribution of …

… employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are … interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and cultivated microbes, … lacusprofundi . To do this, water samples were collected from the Rauer 1 and Club lakes in East Antarctica and …

… user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for support from 53 received through a joint research call. Submitted … alga is colloquially known by researchers. A missing gene from this mutant library leads to photosynthetic defects, …

… of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (Berkeley Lab’s) core … the relationships we nurture in our workplace and seek to establish with our stakeholders. In working toward a … the trust of our stakeholders. These stakeholders range from scientists to members of the public whose tax dollars …

… of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane … scientists have shown at least two microorganisms from different phyla are capable of methanogenesis. Using … in  Nature .  Researchers started by collecting samples from Yellowstone’s hot springs, an extreme environment with …

… at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced in every corn variety and … ability make zealexins, and harnessed gene expression data from these lines to identify genes associated with zealexin … plants in the future. … Research was supported by grants from the USDA NIFA AFRI (1758976 to A.H. and E.S.) for …

… the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the … Science user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is to become the leading integrative …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the … Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program ( DGE-1110007 ). SA, AB, and MB were supported by NSF  1706134 . SL …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … podcast minisode.)  In 2016, the JGI accepted a proposal from Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their biosynthetic logics to be … genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome …