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… The JGI welcomes three new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, … six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the …

… are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial … Impact By collecting and sequencing dominant haloarchaeal sequences from six hypersaline lakes, researchers focused on …

… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s … of its flagship education program with UC Merced. JGI Director Nigel Mouncey and program organizers Wang, Visel and … Merced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center coordinator Jorge Arroyo lauded the partnership. Sindi also shared a …

… technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a … of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated the efficacy and … the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

… complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, … inform how scientists can more easily convert plants into carbon-neutral biofuels . What’s more, many natural products … finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are … list, and those from the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor … combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the … to that point, industrial facilities will need large-scale approaches to processing plant biomass. Here, cud-chewers …

… Four researchers have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome … user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the University of Georgia, Greg Bonito of Michigan State University, Jonathan Eisen of the …

… more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns from this cohort and their …

… was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the … Olmstead saw a few familiar faces, one of them belonged to his research adviser Axel Visel. Both Visel and another … genome research and apply experimental and computation tools to solve research problems. In Visel’s group, Olmstead …