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… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all … Plant microbiomes hold the amazing ability to influence plant development, fitness and …

… collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, … resilience. The program’s discoveries support a plant based bioeconomy where plants are a major source of chemical …

… 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 … that enable fungi and algae to play a vital role in carbon cycling, biodegradation and biogeochemistry. This …

… The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) call … high-risk/high-payoff proposals within the focused topic areas that can be completed on an accelerated timeline as … provides customized analysis, the JGI also participates in publication of results. …

… UDWARY: It’s been a while, but Natural Prodcast is back again for another round of episodes. If you stick around for … and work within the DOE emission space of bioenergy, carbon cycling, biogeochemistry, bioproducts. So we cannot … do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really important because we …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of … The “Great Plate-Count Anomaly” first described by Stanley and Konopa in 1985, which highlights our skewed understanding of microbial metabolism towards a minority of cultivated … uncultivated Bacteria and Archaea has steadily been widening since 2005. This gap is also reflected in the strongly …

… The JGI has diverse capabilities in: DNA and RNA sequencing, Sample and library preparation, Biodesign and pathway … Q1  (median/75th percentile*) DNA Synthesis Constructs <5kb in size Single gene or multiple small genes assembled to … physical separation of a biologically relevant unit from a microbial community, such as a microcolony, microbial …

… Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with genomic data to … also enables exploration of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With … The Metabolomics Program is focused on understanding the critical roles of metabolites in living systems, …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … and how we do it here and maybe give an example of a recent publication. ALISON TAKEMURA: Awesome. Yeah, let’s dive in, … oxidative conversions and do some really complicated carbon skeleton rearrangements, chemistry that we probably …

… See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, and Facilities … Linking lignin engineering to drought stress resilience: …

… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers … Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered surprises, adopted …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early … applied to samples collected from acidic iron-oxide microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park over time, researchers … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science …