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Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their nutrients — the … genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new … decomposers that can break down all of wood’s components — cellulose, hemicellulose, and the toughest molecule, lignin. …

… high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility … is a five-day coding event that offers participating teams the opportunity to either jumpstart acceleration or … and the code owners will be able to get assistance from mentors and a team to port their code to a new …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany with … water research. The meeting involved key representatives from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for …

The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is a board convened by the JGI Director to provide a scientific and … (CSP). A crucial job of the committee is to take the input from the CSP Proposal Study Panel on prioritization of CSP projects and, with concurrence from the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research …

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome … to go for it alone,” he said. A Larger Story; a Hardworking Team Todd Anderson , Director of the Biological Systems …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 …

Phytozome workshop held during the June 2022 CROPS Conference at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Phytozome is the Plant …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two … the project are available on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team has also been able to discover additional microbes that …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … learn the value of their item. Part of that pleasure comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother … question. In a recent Scientific Advances article , a team led by McDaniel and his former graduate student Sarah …

JGI’s Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program … Portia Mira (2016 graduate intern): Just started postdoc at UCLA and also received the UCLA Postdocs Longitudinal …