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California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program … mentors, alumni, and other JGI staff, Mouncey explained: “One of the hallmarks of JGI is our diverse workforce and our … (NSF) that supports underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. More than 20 …

… weeks at the DOE JGI, Olmstead saw a few familiar faces, one of them belonged to his research adviser Axel Visel. … developing an algorithm for RNA-Seq assembly. RNA-Seq is a technique for profiling the small fraction of a genome that … to see what research is like at JGI. After graduating from UC Merced, this experience will help them direct their …

… (Berkeley Lab), comes in. The JGI is uniquely positioned to enable this kind of science; through its DNA … at Northwestern University, and researchers at the biotech company LanzaTech to develop a “cell-free” gene … fostering academia-industry collaborations.” A third story from the issue — Machine learning-based prediction of …

Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes … regulating global nutrient cycles. The information gained from understanding the interactions between microbes, hosts, … applied to multiple research areas including agriculture, biofuels and bioproducts, and medicine. Wading through 30 …

Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair, noted that one of the biggest questions was the mystery of the missing …

… when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce these … focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found …

… experimental innovations, computational advances, and other technological developments leveraging recent progress in … researchers to discover novel lineages of life and move from the identification of microbial novelty to assigning … potential of these new lineages will provide new cornerstones for research in the areas of bioenergy and biomedicine, …

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

… maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … has extended the possible virophage genome size range from 13.8-29.3 kilobases (Kb) to 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, …