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

… The purpose of this policy is to establish communication norms around … recognized and credited for their work, while also adhering to the authorship policies of the journal in which the … that the data produced by the facility result in scientific publications. JGI users and collaborators have the right to …

… The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates the … labs and culture collections to produce hundreds of diverse algal genomes, which will be made accessible through …

… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved … develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties encoded within those genomes. Our aim is to more fully …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s … faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This opportunity, provided … A primary purpose of this project is to bring educators from a broad range of …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental … fungi, viruses. Resident viruses can be found in a myriad of bacterial strains, whereby they can modulate host …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … in order to challenge or kill off competition, right? And plants do the same sorts of things. And then, bacteria often … and how we do it here and maybe give an example of a recent publication. ALISON TAKEMURA: Awesome. Yeah, let’s dive in, …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast– a … to the end. It’s not only the final product that is highly diverse, but also many of the intermediaries. And, in a way, … could be a reasonable number if you are talking about a plant and a microbe interacting very stably. So it makes …

… The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, annotation and analysis techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those … Novel approaches are being explored to predict microbial lifestyles using AI-driven analysis of such datasets. The …

… research is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics … to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to find …