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… Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual … State University and colleagues aim to understand how soil microbiomes in fire-adapted ecosystems respond to low and …

… 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 … genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference …

… As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual … sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks shed light on how the JGI … excited about in JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these talks below, starting with Ari Patrinos. The …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to … as an energy source.  Until recently, our understanding of these methanogenic microorganisms was narrowed to a type …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since been … In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and …

… really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis … “I moved to UC Davis in 2014,” recalled Philipp Zerbe of the University of California, Davis. “The work with JGI … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research …

… 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, … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year to do so. … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach …