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… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious …

… for Episode 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot going on, so I took a little break, but I’m hoping that from … Yeah, dad never forced it on me, but we always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would … which, at least at the time, was called Inatreq . It’s a fungicide that is active against Sartoria which is a really …

… to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have …

… The Genome Insider podcast brings listeners into the science that the JGI makes possible. … into their work on all kinds of organisms, from plants and fungi to microbes and viruses. Listen in to explore the data …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … marine organisms. Except during the time that we worked in fungi. But what do you see as the overall theme of your … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s … the expectation that faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This opportunity, provided by the Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial …

… strengthens -omics technologies at the JGI by identifying the actual molecules present in an environment that influence system behavior.  Through … experimental samples, including organisms (e.g. microbes, fungi, plant), media in which they grow, as well as … Find more details on the instrumentation we use and our …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … from the ocean. We didn’t know whether to study bacteria, fungi, archaea, the whole range of microbial life. So, we … 25, 30 years. And I can actually go give a talk at ASM [The American Society for Microbiology] and those kinds of …

… 2024 was a year of firsts, including the flagship internship program between Alabama … spent two months in Berkeley, California honing their scientific skills and collaborating with their mentors and …   Internship Snapshots …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative … Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … lab describes the effort that led to the work published in Scientific Reports . Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … in the earlier primers. In bacteria, at least, and in most fungi, biosynthetic gene clusters, which are the genes that … the time, at least the ones we know about, are clustered in fungi. Plants are a different story and much more …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … So it was great to hear her passion and enthusiasm for fungi. And we talk a lot about some of the technical … your talk today. It was another great example of probing fungi for natural products and finding new things. And so, …