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Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying … SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to more researchers. …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Due to the ongoing pandemic, Woyke will receive the prize at a …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions … (FICUS) . Through FICUS, the researchers have tapped into the resources and capabilities of both the JGI and the …

… learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that … supported by the NSF grants  DEB-1354625 and  IOS-1456958 . Sequencing of  Dothideomycetes genomes were conducted as …

Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “We’re very excited to start working …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was …

The JGI welcomes three new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, … six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons …

… in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the … announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the …

Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing … to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene …

Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  … i.e., by Harald Huber and Sebastien Ferreira-Cerca, and sequencing of MSI metagenomes within the Census of Deep Life …