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Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that … young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and …

… decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock … regulating global nutrient cycles. The information gained from understanding the interactions between microbes, hosts, …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They were selected through peer review from 41 full proposals out of 50 letters of intent …

Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting … faculty members may invite up to two student participants from the faculty member’s home academic institution, one of …

… 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 …

… 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 … The team was thus able to measure sgRNA effectiveness from its lethality and choose only the most reliable sgRNAs …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the … is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is … issues in microbiology.  A senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led …

… with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their schedules were filled with … Lavenstein Bendall and mentor Juan C. Villada, Ecology & Evolution of Self-Catalytic Introns across Earth’s …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa … Jessie Uehling of the University of California, Berkeley is interested in better characterizing the role …

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 …

University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … a Research Scientist position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her … Science Advisory Board Member for Science Department, Berkeley City College, (2015-current) Organizing Committee …