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… Retracing how the dry rot Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing … buildings, the dry rot fungus migrated indoors and across borders, adapting to thrive in manmade environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo …

… 4 of the Fisabio Summer School.  The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical … fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and research results in genomics, metagenomics and the … will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut … 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… The JGI welcomes three new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California … eligible for election to the UEC. Members serve three-year terms and can serve no more than two consecutive terms. The …

… in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the … Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. … and JGI’s Jan-Fang Cheng and Trent Northen teamed with longtime JGI collaborator Jeffery Dangl at the University of …

… when and how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature … started roughly 250,000 years ago, when eelgrass traveled across the ocean current from Japan to colonize the southern … craft a genetic clock based on its divergence with a  different species. However, eelgrass didn’t have a reliable …

… The Synthetic Biology lab is divided into a DNA synthesis production group and a synthetic biology … Our production group operates as user facility that aims to provide access to state-of-the-art DNA synthesis and assembly technologies … For further details, please reach out to the Group Lead …

… program , which awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE … in mangrove wetlands in south Texas,” he explained. “In terms of my project, I wanted to incorporate that CSP, but … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and …

… and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Through multi-platform stories and outreach efforts, the team aims to broaden awareness of and access to JGI public resources and the DOE mission, as well as help … is the JGI's Communications and Outreach Manager. Click to see the coverage of JGI-enabled science highlighting user …

… was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the … DOE JGI, Olmstead saw a few familiar faces, one of them belonged to his research adviser Axel Visel. Both Visel and … run several programs for RNA-Seq assembly to determine which is best for the task at hand. “There are at …