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… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from … sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map microbial activity, Baldrian’s team …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives … Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. The main object of her research was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she …

… of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, … and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also … production of biofuels and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating …

… Edward Lu and mentor Miguel Romero Sean Saki and mentors  Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Sivagunalan Thamilarasan and … Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors Elle Barnes and Susannah Tringe Shari Larsen and mentor Robert M. Bowers … enough experience to make really good contributions to the project. Also my area of expertise over the past couple …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling … So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes …