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… Kathleen Scott, Tiffany Taylor, Setsuko Wakao and Benjamin Woolston. ] Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from scientists who … crops through transcriptional network mapping, developing microbial systems to convert renewable feedstocks into …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … factory, capable of turning abundant biomass carbohydrates — glucose and xylose — into fatty acids that could be … MB) and NSF  1706545 (IW). HA and JW were supported by the Office of Naval Research under grant  N00014-15-1-2785 . JW …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from …

… A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … science, energy conversion and water treatment as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and …

… Pictured from left: [Above] Hanin Alzubaidy, Markus Covert, Sheel C. Dodani, Kathryn Fixen, … Joint Genome Institute (JGI) accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from scientists who … research to develop  applications ranging from engineering microbial enzymes that unlock novel biochemical pathways, to …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically … Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools …

… Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … 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, …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea …