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… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … data sets, their work may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a colored-in page of that book. Published online … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

… as user facility that aims to provide access to state-of-the-art DNA synthesis and assembly technologies to the … mining and sequence design with scaling the production of large, difficult to synthesize constructs such as those … in new technologies, in particular through adoption of lab automation enabling ever-higher levels of throughput. …

… Software engineers in the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software includes: gRNA-SeqRET , an organism-agnostic CRISPR …

… and supporting applications that span the lifecycle of activities at JGI - proposal submission and review, … automated sequence quality control and automation of microbial/metagenomic assemblies, portals that make data … BS in BioEngineering, University of California, Berkeley …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container … LANL, Tisza Bell in Shawn Starkenburg’s group conducted a series of experiments on the Scenedesmus strain to find out … This research was supported by the Bioenergy Technology Office (BETO) within the Department of Energy’s Office of …

… Nottingham University, UK PhD in Genomics, University of Cambridge, UK Postdoctoral training Wellcome Trust Sanger … Price et al 2018. Mutant phenotypes for thousands of bacterial genes of unknown function. Nature 557:503-509. Blow et al 2016. …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The … themselves can also be modified. The best-known example of a modified DNA base is a methylation of the base cytosine at the 5th position on its carbon ring, … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the … Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular … Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using …

… You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, … are accepted year-round for this ongoing call; the next deadline for proposal submission is Sept. 9, 2025, for …