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… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to …

… is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… Mi Yan, Deanna Beatty)    Vision  Lead AI-driven genomic innovation to advance biotechnology. Mission  As a U.S. … by the Biological and Environmental Research program, the Joint Genome Institute provides advanced genomic capabilities, …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship … Cross Species Integration of Single Cell Transcriptomes …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and … The authors acknowledge their funding sources: Office of Biological and Environmental Research … of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies grants …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) … sesquiterpenoids, National Science Foundation Plant-Biotic Interactions Program (grant no. 1758976 to E.S. and P.Z.) for diterpenoids, by a DOE Joint Genome Institute Community Science Program (JGI-CSP) …

… Select interns look back on meaningful lessons from their summer experiences at the JGI Berkeley Lab offers a variety of programs to help inspire and train the next generation of STEM professionals. …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms … This research was supported in part by the Allen Distinguished Investigator Program, …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. … , which can have pronounced ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team … More genome copies in switchgrass leads to increased climate flexibility …