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… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). They also built an …
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… to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify … experiment outlines a roadmap that is transferable to other systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI …
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… JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced … Pawlowska, who studies fungal-bacterial symbiotic systems, noted that she would like to help advance JGI …
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… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … came up with this new method, Session mentioned that the analysis for determining the evolutionary history of … small possibility that something could be missing from the analysis (due to extinction or you didn’t sample it). But …
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… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and … be sequenced. Their protocol, detailed in the journal Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was …
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… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula The Science … on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A new analysis takes a genomic look at Lentinula samples from … tropics of the Asia-Australia region. Overall, pangenome analysis showed significantly more genetic diversity in …
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… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …
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… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process … Genomics Department Head for the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of the Lab’s Biosciences Area since …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … J., Terry, A. et al. The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 5. Nature. 431, 268–274 (2004). … Martin, J., Han, C., Gordon, L. et al. The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16 . Nature. …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … capable of knocking down human RNA the way that CRISPR-Cas9 systems snip DNA. This could eventually lead to applications …
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… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … carbon and nitrogen fixers in alpine and high latitude ecosystems, deciphering their internal molecular mechanisms can … alga genome) and MycoCosm (for the fungus genome) to aid analysis. Many of the results were unexpected. For example, …
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… Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial … this year. And today we have our conversation with Professor Alison Narayan, from the University of Michigan. I hope she’ll accept this description, but I’d …
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