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… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new … striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability … looking at the overall greenhouse gas impacts from all of our operations,” said Brie Fulton, program manager for  …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of … protocol,  detailed in the journal  Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was demonstrated using a specific …

… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a … Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations … that, “In the next few years, with advances in genomics and multi-omics, phenotyping and AI we should better understand …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other … unique array of chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … the world. That said, we recognize that workforce in genomics, including JGI, is not representative of the diversity … the Women in STEM campus organization and is involved with multiple outreach programs promoting the advancement of …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of livestock were more capable than …

… . The Science Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and … sorghum and maize, sugarcane can grow on nutrient-poorer soils and does not need to be planted annually. The modern …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient … abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The reference genome for M. sinensis, and …

… ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … “Once you have a landing pad in a strain, you can deliver multiple types of payloads, such as individual genes, whole … part of the Community Science Program (CSP)  Functional Genomics proposal call. …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … of clonally propagated plants to address these questions.” Multiple collection methods were applied to gather the … “This paper is a combination of really cutting-edge genomics and genetic analysis with large scale data …

… his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, he directs a multidisciplinary team responsible for piloting and … tissues. Dr. Baumgart focuses on expanding functional genomics capabilities through process automation and method …

… characterization technologies (scRNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics). … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic … List of pubs available on NCBI … Implementation of the Index of Cell Identity as an R package … Selected Publications … Software …