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… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … was done by the JGI, and proteomics and metabolomics analysis and microscopy at EMSL. The team infected the …

… places that are considered to be inhospitable to humans are of particular interest. Matt also supports …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an industrial scale to produce … of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen microbes involved in the digestion …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … The phyllosphere, which is known as the aerial surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest … with her JGI mentor, Robert Bowers . She contributed to the analysis of mobile genetic elements across all of the …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant bacterial group in the …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … improving bioinformatics tools that can help with dataset analysis, as well as how they can be shared with and used by …

… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They also took part in many enriching workshops and networked with fellow interns and … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. …

… Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock … using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … present. The Impact Black cottonwood, or poplar, ( Populus trichocarpa ) is the fastest growing hardwood tree in the … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …

… Before joining the JGI, he has been working on the boundary of life science and computational science with notable stops … using the substrate provided by LBNL, where possible, and enriching it, where necessary, to fit the needs of the dynamic … team is unbureaucratic and driven by code, without putting humans in the loop. He is a big proponent of empowering …

… Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Flavonoid and lignin analysis was partially supported by the DOE, Office of …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which … plant resilience and productivity. The algal genomes sequences are available on the JGI’s  PhycoCosm portal. …