The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers who have not led any previously-accepted proposals through the New Investigator call.
A Collaboration to Improve Plant Genome Annotations Across Species
Described in Nucleic Acids, the JGI Plant Gene Atlas is a huge updateable transcriptome resource spanning diverse plant species.
Natural Prodcast Episode 20 – Brian Bachmann
In Natural Prodcast, guest Brian Bachmann covers genome mining from cave environments, and using biosynthetic engineering and synthetic biology to modify and analog complex natural product molecules.
Natural Prodcast co-hosts Dan Udwary and Jackie Winter chat with Brian Bachmann on genome mining from cave environments, and using biosynthetic engineering and synthetic biology to modify and analog complex natural product molecules
From Berkeley to Binghamton: Tracking Strawberry Evolution
In Nature Communications, a method to correctly identify polyploid subgenomes without needing to know the genomes of their ancestors.
Genome Insider S4 Episode 4: Methane Makers in Yosemite’s Lakes – Mike Beman and Elisabet Perez Coronel
Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work.
Genome Insider S4 Episode 3: A Shrubbier Version of Rubber – Andrew Nelson and Colleen McMahan
Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis. It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.
Genome Insider S4 Episode 2: The Busy World of Deep Sea Eruptions – Anna-Louise Reysenbach and Emily St. John
The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.
Genome Insider S4 Episode 1: Crops as Tough as World Cup Turf – James Schnable and Guangchao Sun
In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schnable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into other crops. One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup pitches in 2022.
iPHoP: A Matchmaker for Phages and their Hosts
Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP. It combines and evaluates multiple predictions to reliably match viruses with their archaea and bacteria hosts.
Supercharging SIP in the Fungal Hyphosphere
Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi.