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Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta … with the JGI began soon after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is … and mass spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay. The work was  reported in  The ISME Journal . While the screen …

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. … The Science To help better understand how ecosystems work and how healthy they are, a recent data set  outlined …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental and energy …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts … a step toward an artificial photosynthetic cell. The work is part of a long-term effort to capture and utilize …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved … To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, …

… poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. … and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … and commodity chemicals, as well as drop-in biofuels. This work shows that anaerobic fungi might be a new source of …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed … biology. In addition to this evolutionary focus, his work on plant genomics is targeted towards the development …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal … Recently published in  Nature Communications , the work was led by a consortium of researchers from the French …

Congratulations to the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI … at protein function within them. Kyrpides and Roux also worked together on the development of a new software tool …

From left to right: [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, Sneha Couvillion, Tobin Hammer, Christina Hazard, Rachel Mackelprang, … Torralbo, Luis Felipe Valdez-Nuñez  The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of …