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… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how … Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by then-graduate student Cory Schwartz and his …

… approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of … more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from microbial and …

… Lab) were on the scene collecting samples. Terry Hazen, a former Berkeley Lab environmental biologist and current … To find an explanation, his team tracked the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array … Janet Jansson’s team. Jansson is currently Chief Scientist for Biology in the Biological Sciences Division and a …

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… sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable … Eloe-Fadrosh’s Environmental Genomics group, makes a pitch for readers to get involved in the developing field of virus …

… next generation of STEM professionals. Students can apply for internships and work onsite with an experienced … while Oliver Benelli applied through the University of California's  CalTeach initiative. During their time at the … been thinking about science communication, like prepping for that. But the one thing I've learned so far with like, …

… manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to … thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt levels … They are also the primary producers in the marine food web, forming the base of the food chain and providing energy for …

… was being waged. In the JGI@25 video below, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … the people and resources from these three national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next … years, and in collaboration with researchers at the Stanford Human Genome Center, JGI staff worked around the clock …

… Genome Project (HGP), and building upon the principles for open access in the field of genomics established in  Bermuda (1996-1997) and reinforced by the  Fort Lauderdale Agreement (2003), the JGI recognized the … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and have … Lab is the home to an exceptional caliber of scientists.” For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane … in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions of plants with their associated microbiomes. Tringe was also …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … the National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s … that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab …