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For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array developed at Berkeley Lab. Over the next decade, … also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut … 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the … which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … out to characterize the transcriptome – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI … Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What effect has your summer …

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel … of desert grasslands to the metabolic savviness of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean …

Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict …

… 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped … degradation.  “We are  very excited to see the outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s …