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    Maize can produce a cocktail of antibiotics with a handful of enzymes. (Sam Fentress, CC BY-SA 2.0)
    How Maize Makes An Antibiotic Cocktail
    Zealexins are produced in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections using surprisingly few enzymes.

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    The genome of the common fiber vase or Thelephora terrestris was among those used in the study. (Francis Martin)
    From Competition to Cooperation
    By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how saprotrophs have transitioned to the symbiotic lifestyle.

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    Miscanthus grasses. (Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)
    A Grass Model to Help Improve Giant Miscanthus
    The reference genome for M. sinensis, and the associated genomic tools, allows Miscanthus to both inform and benefit from breeding programs of related candidate bioenergy feedstock crops such as sugarcane and sorghum.

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    Poplar (Populus trichocarpa and P. deltoides) grow in the Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory (APPL) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Poplar is an important biofuel feedstock, and Populus trichocarpa is the first tree species to have its genome sequenced — a feat accomplished by JGI. (Image courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy)
    Podcast: Xiaohan Yang on A Plantiful Future
    Building off plant genomics collaborations between the JGI and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Xiaohan Yang envisions customizing plants for the benefit of human society.

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    Expansin complex with cell wall in background. (Courtesy of Daniel Cosgrove)
    Synthesizing Microbial Expansins with Unusual Activities
    Expansin proteins from diverse microbes have potential uses in deconstructing lignocellulosic biomass for conversion to renewable biofuels, nanocellulosic fibers, and commodity biochemicals.

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    High oleic pennycress. (Courtesy of Ratan Chopra)
    Pennycress – A Solution for Global Food Security, Renewable Energy and Ecosystem Benefits
    Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) is under development as a winter annual oilseed bioenergy crop. It could produce up to 3 billion gallons of seed oil annually while reducing soil erosion and fertilizer runoff.

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    Artistic interpretation of CheckV assessing virus genome sequences from environmental samples. (Rendered by Zosia Rostomian​, Berkeley Lab)
    An Automated Tool for Assessing Virus Data Quality
    CheckV can be broadly utilized by the research community to gauge virus data quality and will help researchers to follow best practices and guidelines for providing the minimum amount of information for an uncultivated virus genome.

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    Unicellular algae in the Chlorella genus, magnified 1300x. (Andrei Savitsky)
    A One-Stop Shop for Analyzing Algal Genomes
    The PhycoCosm data portal is an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and enthusiasts to look deep into more than 100 algal genomes, compare them, and visualize supporting experimental data.

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    Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles in the Earth's microbiomes. (Rendered by Zosia Rostomian​, Berkeley Lab)
    Podcast: A Primer on Genome Mining
    In Natural Prodcast: the basics of genome mining, and how JGI researchers conducted it in IMG/ABC on thousands of metagenome-derived genomes for a Nature Biotechnology paper.

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    Scanning electron micrographs of diverse diatoms. (Credits: Diana Sarno, Marina Montresor, Nicole Poulsen, Gerhard Dieckmann)
    Learn About the Approved 2021 Large-Scale CSP Proposals
    A total of 27 proposals have been approved through JGI's annual Community Science Program (CSP) call. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals come from researchers who have not previously been a principal investigator on an approved JGI proposal.

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    MiddleGaylor Michael Beman UC Merced
    How to Successfully Apply for a CSP Proposal
    Reach out to JGI staff for feedback before submitting a proposal. Be sure to describe in detail what you will do with the data.

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    Click on the image or go here to watch the video "Enriching target populations for genomic analyses using HCR-FISH" from the journal Microbiome describing the research.
    How to Target a Microbial Needle within a Community Haystack
    Enabled by the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program, researchers have developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes.

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    Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles in the Earth's microbiomes. (Rendered by Zosia Rostomian​, Berkeley Lab)
    Uncovering Novel Genomes from Earth’s Microbiomes
    A public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the world, expanding the known diversity of bacteria and archaea by 44%, is now available .

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    Green millet (Setaria viridis) plant collected in the wild. (Courtesy of the Kellogg lab)
    Shattering Expectations: Novel Seed Dispersal Gene Found in Green Millet
    In Nature Biotechnology, a very high quality reference Setaria viridis genome was sequenced, and for the first time in wild populations, a gene related to seed dispersal was identified.

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    The Brachypodium distachyon-B. stacei-B. hybridum polyploid model complex. (Illustrations credits: Juan Luis Castillo)
    The More the Merrier: Making the Case for Plant Pan-genomes
    Crop breeders have harnessed polyploidy to increase fruit and flower size, and confer stress tolerance traits. Using a Brachypodium model system, researchers have sought to learn the origins, evolution and development of plant polyploids. The work recently appeared in Nature Communications.

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November 20, 2019

Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University

Kelly Wrighton JGI value cropped screencapWhy collaborate with the DOE Joint Genome Institute? Kelly Wrighton, a microbiologist at Colorado State University, talks about the value of JGI’s involvement in a proposal recently accepted through the Community Science Program.  Come see Wrighton speak at JGI’s 15th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting, happening March 22-26, 2020 in Oakland, Calif. Register… [Read More]

January 31, 2018

Tobias Erb, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

Tobias Erb, MPI Marburg (Courtesy of Tobias Erb)How long have you collaborated with the JGI?  We have been collaborating with JGI since 2015. We are supported by the JGI DNA Synthesis program. The DNA Synthesis team at JGI provides us with synthetic genes, which we then test in our laboratory for their function. Our project aims at characterizing a new class of… [Read More]

December 16, 2017

Colleen Hansel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Colleen Hansel, fungal collaborator at WHOIHow long have you collaborated with JGI?  I started collaborating with JGI in the Fall of 2013 as part of a Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) award between JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). (Click here to learn more about her approved FICUS proposal.) We have been working with the JGI… [Read More]

November 16, 2017

J. Chris Pires, University of Missouri

J. Chris Pires, University of Missouri“JGI has phenomenal scientists and staff who are part of our dream team.”   How long have you collaborated with the JGI? I have been involved with the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) since 2012. I am involved in two JGI projects. The first one is the Brassicales Map Alignment Project (BMAP), which was funded… [Read More]

October 27, 2017

Cat Adams, University of California, Berkeley

Cat Adams, UC Berkeley“If we can assemble genomes, we can learn some of these strategies to reduce bias.”   I study the role of secondary metabolites, especially defensive chemistry and how they influence plant-fungal interactions. For my Ph.D., I’m studying a mushroom called Amanita phalloides, the death cap mushroom. It’s native to Europe but it was brought overseas… [Read More]

August 28, 2017

C. Titus Brown, University of California, Davis

C. TItus Brown, UC Davis on collaborating with the JGIHow long have you collaborated with the JGI? I’m just starting my first partnership with JGI soon, but I’ve been working as part of larger JGI collaborations for about 15 years. I also worked with Jim Tiedje and Janet Jansson on the Great Prairie Grand Challenge soil sequencing project, which started about 10 years ago… [Read More]

July 27, 2017

Rod Wing, Arizona Genomics Institute

Rod Wing on his decade of collaborations with the JGIHow long have you collaborated with the JGI? It’s probably been about ten years. We’ve been doing these high molecular weight DNA for a few projects and now through the ETOP program, we’re providing high molecular weight substrates for whole genome sequencing and for genotyping of various JGI Flagship Plant Genomes, and in support of… [Read More]

April 25, 2017

Brian Hedlund, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Brian Hedlund, University of Nevada, Las VegasHow long have you collaborated with the JGI and on which projects? I’ve been working with the JGI for about ten years now. To date, all of our work has focused on some aspect of life in terrestrial geothermal springs, mostly Great Boiling Spring in northeast Nevada. These projects have included work on both microbial… [Read More]

July 9, 2015

Matthew Sullivan, The Ohio State University

Matthew Sullivan, The Ohio State UniversityDepartments of Microbiology, and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Collaborated with JGI since 2001 How long have you collaborated with the JGI and on which projects? Since 2009 as head of my own lab, and since 2001 as a PhD student (with Penny Chisholm at MIT) working on the initial marine Prochlorococcus and… [Read More]

May 14, 2015

Jillian Banfield, University of California, Berkeley

Jillian Banfield, PhD is a prominent geomicrobiologist and biochemist, a UC Berkeley Professor, a Berkeley Lab Earth Sciences Division staff scientist, and a long time user of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s resources through the Community Science Program (CSP) and the Emerging Technologies Opportunities Program (ETOP). In this short interview, Jill shares her perspective how… [Read More]
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