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… Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is collaborating … will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow In 2010, a draft first genome of  Theobroma cacao  – the tree that produces cacao … . An updated reference genome for  T. cacao has now been completed and released by HudsonAlpha scientists, with the …

…   The Joint Genome Institute's Biodesign Platform capabilities support … to convert sequence into functional assessments. This is done by synthesizing genes, pathways, and whole chromosomes …

… 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP … in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 11. 2023 Liu et. al., Bacterial genome editing by coupling Cre-lox and CRISPR-Cas9 systems. PloS one. 15: 11. 2020 Blaby & Cheng, Building a custom …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains … in the absence of cell growth by isolating the soluble components of lysed cells. By separating the production of … senior authors. “But this has been done most commonly in bacterial-based systems, and so one of the things that I …

… and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant bacterial group in the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral … high throughput approach for isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing … genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the …

… Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … in   iron deficiency response, formation of secondary cell walls (biosynthesis), and integrating molecules that …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as … synthesis of sustainable chemical products,” said Jewett, one of the study’s senior authors. “But this has been done most commonly in bacterial-based systems, and so one of the things that I …

… a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  … can be used to create compounds more efficiently than one strain could on its own.  In work published in  …