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… The Synthetic Biology lab is divided into a DNA synthesis production group … mining and sequence design with scaling the production of large, difficult to synthesize constructs such as those … in:  characterizing novel enzymatic activities using phylogenomic driven approaches, and understanding the design …

… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals … now a facet of the  Fungal & Algal Program . For example, green algae represent the largest group of primary producers … metabolite-producing environmental bacteria from the Tiny Earth collection. The work builds upon a pilot project …

… The Genome Insider podcast brings listeners into the science that the JGI makes possible. Each episode, host Menaka Wilhelm interviews …

… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The … including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that … to carbon cycling, and is interested in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most … functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize … cracked open the genome of another polar species, the green alga Microglena sp. YARC, which also contains expanded …

… haloarchaea from different Antarctic lakes. To assess the genomic variation in haloarchaea, they also characterized … in resistance between two strains. But perhaps the largest implication of this study is the evidence that H. … This work was supported by the Australian Research Council …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … is impacting these marine communities,” said Mock. The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), produced from the … to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences …

… Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he … analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at … and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of eukaryotic algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to developing a …

… FY2025 Spending Profile The JGI is funded primarily by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), a …