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… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This action triggers subsurface carbon … carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The …

… health and diversity, which can in turn boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. … roots are akin to the ground floor lobby. People walking into the lobby have many reasons for being there, but … and Environment (INRAE) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …

… all refer to the chemicals that make species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to … JGI acts on its goals in — and builds out its capabilities for — secondary metabolism research, “Natural Prodcast” …

… genomic science projects that address biological functions for biomanufacturing, critical minerals and materials, … biology, modeling and biodesign — questions of relevance to DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program … All proposals will be externally peer-reviewed for scientific merit, DOE mission relevance, proposed data …

… received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , one of DOE’s highest honors! Tringe, a microbiologist, was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial … Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s Microbial …

… In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access … quantities of DNA derived from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle study built off earlier … – a symbiont of the green sharpshooter. In 2012, single cells isolated from the microbes found in the oil plume from …

… algae and plants. These molecules, which are not essential for fundamental growth, provide critical advantages to the … and their roles in the environment, can unlock new avenues for bio-based products and bioenergy crop enhancement. The program aims to tap into the largely unexplored biochemical diversity within …

… membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a … fiber proteins, and thereby allow them to embrace different cells. Since that discovery, DGRs have been found in other … opportunity to study how DGRs work and develop more of them into new biological tools. …

… of new molecules and pathways. The JGI Metabolomics Platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse … products At JGI, in-depth molecular profiles are generated for metabolites extracted from a variety of experimental … fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as different types of environments (e.g. soil, lake).  A wide …

… ( NERSC ) is to accelerate scientific discovery at the DOE Office of Science through high performance computing (HPC) and data analysis.  The DOE Systems … collaborations, the DOE JGI, NERSC and KBase issued a call for proposals in biological data science as part of the …