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… that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a … corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these compounds via clear, straight pathways, entailing the function of more than a dozen enzymes. …
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… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast … products are limited in chemical output due to growth and viability constraints. Cell extracts provide an … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to …
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… (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data … U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, we provide advanced genomic capabilities, large-scale data, … in studies of complex biological and environmental systems. We optimize our service to the community through responsibly …
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… that can target single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). The discovery was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools … (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then biochemically characterized by a team led by …
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… a Department of Energy user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the … at Michigan State University. He studies fungal biodiversity, ecology, and evolution, with a focus on … worked closely with both the Fungal & Algal Program and the Microbial Program over the past decade in gene regulatory …
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… 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three … ,” as Kathy Yelick of the Computing Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) describes … Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts) Microbial ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been …
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… heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and … and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. …
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… Corales, Hugh Cross, Megan DeMarche, Joanne Emerson, Matthew Hudson, Megan Keller and Julia Kelliher; [below] Vassili Kouvelis, Seppe Kuehn, Tesfaye Mengiste, Egbert Schwartz, Hannah Schulman, Bram Stone and Jana Voriskovaa The …
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… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … of fungi from aquatic to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments. …
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… the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Evaluation of Binning Tools for Microbial Eukaryotes in Metagenomes … Functional exploration of Phage Impact on Microbial Root …
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… The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the video below, captions are available) spotlighted … Q: Any advice on normalizing metabolomic data from a whole microbial community, without having cell counts or … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to …
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… omics data and comparative analysis tools. Questions and Answers 1. Q(uestion): Do you accept oomycetes to be proposed … A(nswer): Our focus is on fungi, algae, plants, and the microbial world but we also annotated several Phytophthora … resources for plants (phytozome), algae (PhycoCosm), and microbial world (IMG) 29. Q: Does MycoCosm support diploid …
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