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… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … is led by a team of highly experienced investigators from institutions including the University of Maryland and …

… a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … found that these enzymes have evolved distinctly from both core and specialized enzymes. Even during … To gain this insight into the evolution of ATs, this team traced the evolution of these enzymes across 90 species. …

… his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology … a method that enables high-throughput characterization of transcription factor binding sites and which has been … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, …

… group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course. …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … fostering academia-industry collaborations.” A third story from the issue — Machine learning-based prediction of …

… Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify … School of Medicine and her graduate work in microbial oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The accepted proposals come from 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. … through the  DOE Systems Knowledgebase (KBase) , a free, open source data science platform that allows users to …

… in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA input without amplification. …