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… to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … naturally modifying lignin. The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using … for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal genome . …
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… biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … could help researchers better understand the factors controlling microbial symbiotic relationships. Summary Symbiotic … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …
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… ( Glycine max ) also has the advantage of reducing the need for nitrogen fertilizer. These impressive environmental and … up with him recently. “So, there’s going to be a need for these biofuels and that’s a good niche market for … was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and the evolution of …
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… fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” the Hornburg fortress had withstood all attacks – until the Battle of … i.e., by Harald Huber and Sebastien Ferreira-Cerca, and sequencing of MSI metagenomes within the Census of Deep Life …
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… a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a … that biomass could serve as the starting material for a wide range of fuels and chemicals. To get to that … enzymes. They found many enzymes that outperformed industry standards. A year later, her team used …
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… projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy … DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for support from 53 received through a joint research call. … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …
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… the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on the development and … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, … Deputy for Science Programs … Awards and Honors … Selected Publications …
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… by a growing human population and increasing demand for agricultural products. Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is … consortium involving researchers from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources … nearly 400 root and leaf samples and helped analyze the sequencing datasets. The results from the first year showed …
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Through the “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the … State University, which archives and makes available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …
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… to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. … questions relevant to the DOE mission, and we look forward to facilitating their success. “ The CSP Annual Call … interactions, understanding natural communities important for carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and climate change; …
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