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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to … A major focus are biofuel feedstock species and plant-microbe interactions, advancing efforts to create renewable energy … and agricultural productivity. Research spans diverse areas — from understanding how terrestrial plants and …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic … contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by … and computational genomics to better understand the plant-associated terrestrial world. Research Team    …

…  Learn about meetings the JGI is hosting:   … New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Symposium … The JGI is represented at conferences year round; find out where …

… The JGI’s data stewardship expertise and infrastructure enable a … accessibility are critical requirements for amplifying the JGI’s impact. Data generated from a single investment will … for further science.  Notice Effective July 27, 2026, the JGI will move to a new login service, requiring the use of …

… The JGI is represented at conferences year round; find out where …

… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … to write a book but it’s really hard to break into that area. I mean you have to secure an agent and there’s all … can find all of that information on virtual and in-person events again on my website. You can also– I’d also encourage …

… hours.   FY 2025 DOE Metrics There were 2,627 unique* JGI users in FY2025 , which includes Principal Investigators … target is based on 98% of the total available hours.   FY 2017 DOE Metrics 1,598 unique* JGI users in FY2017 … developments for improving microbial, metagenomic, or plant genome assemblies. [Download PDF] Q2 – Report on …

… As a National User Facility, the JGI serves more than 2,500 users that predominately come … by industry. When Director Nigel Mouncey joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry … partner to perform a defined scope of work using the JGI’s unique facilities, equipment, and personnel. If a U.S. …

… JGI Mission As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science … and Materials (CMM): Genomic studies of microbial and plant metabolism reveal biological routes to recover, reuse, … Enhancing agriculture: JGI users explore beneficial plant–microbe interactions and nutrient cycling to enhance crop …

… genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science 2017, Nature Microbiology 2018), discovery of new genes with … and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include … GEBA-type strains project ), the delineation of host-virus interactions, the exploration of the functional dark matter …

… the special, natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. … metabolites really in my studies. So this is, is an area that was adjacent to what I worked on, but my … products that would cause some, you know, major historical events and craziness in human history.  ALISON: Yeah, that …

… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use … Understanding the complex relationships between microbes and eukaryotes and their impact on ecosystem … microbes and their hosts. Our work reveals how these interactions shape ecosystem function, genomic innovation …