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    Tracing the Evolution of Shiitake Mushrooms
    Understanding Lentinula genomes and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for biofuel production. Additionally, these fungi play a role in the global carbon cycle.

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    Soil Virus Offers Insight into Maintaining Microorganisms
    Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health.

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    Data yielded from RIViT-seq increased the number of sigma factor-gene pairs confirmed in Streptomyces coelicolor from 209 to 399. Here, grey arrows denote previously known regulation and red arrows are regulation identified by RIViT-seq; orange nodes mark sigma factors while gray nodes mark other genes. (Otani, H., Mouncey, N.J. Nat Commun 13, 3502 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31191-w)
    Streamlining Regulon Identification in Bacteria
    Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes.

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    Mapping Switchgrass Traits with Common Gardens
    The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed researchers to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology.

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    Artist rendering of genome standards being applied to deciphering the extensive diversity of viruses. (Illustration by Leah Pantea)
    Expanding Metagenomics to Capture Viral Diversity
    Along with highlighting the viruses in a given sample, metagenomics shed light on another key aspect of viruses in the environment — their sheer genetic diversity.

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    Photograph of a stream of diatoms beneath Arctic sea ice.
    Polar Phytoplankton Need Zinc to Cope with the Cold
    As part of a long-term collaboration with the JGI Algal Program, researchers studying function and activity of phytoplankton genes in polar waters have found that these algae rely on dissolved zinc to photosynthesize.

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    Silver Age of GOLD Introduces New Features
    The Genomes OnLine Database makes curated microbiome metadata that follows community standards freely available and enables large-scale comparative genomics analysis initiatives.

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    Graphical overview of the RNA Virus MetaTranscriptomes Project. (Courtesy of Simon Roux)
    A Better Way to Find RNA Virus Needles in the Proverbial Database Haystacks
    Researchers combed through more than 5,000 data sets of RNA sequences generated from diverse environmental samples around the world, resulting in a five-fold increase of RNA virus diversity.

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    JGI Part of Berkeley Lab Team Awarded Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences
    The HPCwire Editors Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences went to the Berkeley Lab team comprised of JGI and ExaBiome Project team, supported by the DOE Exascale Computing Project for MetaHipMer, an end-to-end genome assembler that supports “an unprecedented assembly of environmental microbiomes.”

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    Final Round of 2022 CSP Functional Genomics Awardees
    Meet the final six researchers whose proposals were selected for the 2022 Community Science Program Functional Genomics call.

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    CSP New Investigators FY23 R1
    JGI Announces First Round of 2023 New Investigator Awardees
    Twice each year we look for novel research projects aligned with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals through the CSP New Investigator call.

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    Digging into Microbial Ecosystems Deep Underground
    JGI users and microbiome researchers at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, including the role viral infection may play in other natural ecosystems.

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    2022 JGI-UC Merced interns (Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)
    Exploring Possibilities: 2022 JGI-UC Merced Interns
    The 2022 UC Merced intern cohort share how their summer internship experiences have influenced their careers in science.

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    Using Team Science to Build Communities Around Data
    As the data portals grow and evolve, the research communities further expand around them. But with two projects, communities are forming to generate high quality genomes to benefit researchers.

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    Cow Rumen and the Early Days of Metagenomics
    Tracing a cow rumen dataset from the lab to material for a hands-on undergraduate research course at CSU-San Marcos that has since expanded into three other universities.

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April 8, 2021

Webinar: SIP technologies at EMSL and JGI

image for webinar on stable isotope technologies at the JGI and EMSLAt the JGI and EMSL, various tools leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and nutrient flux, and identify microbes assimilating labeled compounds. [Read More]

March 22, 2021

Webinar: MycoCosm Tutorial

MycoCosm webinar screencapHow researchers can utilize the JGI data portal MycoCosm for conducting fungal genomics analyses. [Read More]

March 22, 2021

Webinar: PhycoCosm Tutorial

PhycoCosm webinar screencapAn introduction to the JGI data portal PhycoCosm, and how researchers can harness it for exploring algal genomes and genes. [Read More]

March 22, 2021

Engagement Webinar: Utilizing long-read sequencing for metagenomics and DNA modification detection

screencap long reads webinar_ Metagenome ProgramHow the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects. These long-reads have also been applied to DNA methylation analysis as well as improving metagenome assemblies. [Read More]

March 15, 2021

Engagement Webinar: Accessing NEON’s Environmental Sample Archives, Applying JGI & EMSL Omics Tools

NEON webinar screencapThrough the collaborative science call (FICUS) between the JGI and EMSL, successful applicants can also access resources at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). [Read More]

March 9, 2021

Webinar: Introducing the BioSANS capability

Screencap from the Introducing BioSANS capability webinar hosted by EMSL March 2021A webinar on how researchers could tap the capabilities of the Biological Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (BioSANS) when applying to the EMSL-JGI FICUS call for proposals. [Read More]

February 25, 2021

Engagement Webinar: How to Apply for Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities

JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted an engagement webinar on “Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal.” [Read More]

November 19, 2020

Engagement Webinar: Harnessing JGI’s Metabolomics Capabilities

JGI engagement webinar:harnessing metabolomics capabilitiesThe JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (video available with captions) spotlighted the metabolomic analysis capability available through the Community Science Program (CSP). [Read More]

September 8, 2020

Engagement Webinar: How to Successfully Apply for a CSP Proposal

Sept 1 engagement webinar screencapDuring the JGI Engagement: Pro Tips for Webinar, researchers were invited to submit white papers to the Community Science Program (CSP)’s New Investigator call for proposals. The proposal call is open year-round, but proposals submitted by September 21, 2020, will be included in the next review. [Read More]

July 16, 2020

Engagement Webinar: What Can You Do With An Approved CSP Functional Genomics Call Proposal?

Group shot at the IGB, Dec 2019During the JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar, researchers described how they had availed of JGI’s resources and capabilities through the Community Science Program’s Functional Genomics call for proposals. [Read More]

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