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… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from candidate phyla, major branches … widening since 2005. This gap is also reflected in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the …
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… year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from reseachers who translate genomic … Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the JGI’s DNA synthesis and … in support of advancing the bioeconomy. This year’s project goals range from improving crop productivity for …
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… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene …
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… the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This opportunity, … provided by the Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced …
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… Olufemi Isimikalu, Todd H. Oakley, BJ Philmus and Aaron M. Roshotte; [Below] Paul Scesa, Kathleen Scott, Tiffany … Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the JGI's DNA synthesis and … in support of advancing the bioeconomy. This year's project goals range from engineering drought-tolerant woody …
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… Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. DAN: Hey there. This is Dan again, and … we need people from outside of the JGI to come to us with projects that will help us actually drive this strategic … – people that we already work with at the JGI in terms of projects that the JGI already has underway, and also find, …
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… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …
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… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining … ( magna cum laude ) PhD, Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography …
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… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the … by a DOE training grant. Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah Mikes … This year, however, there was a new aspect to the project - they also worked with Sharon Greenblum from the …
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… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long history of dynamic evolution and rapid changes in both … to Z.-H.C.). B.A.A. and D.W.S. acknowledge funding for this project from the Ambrose Monell Foundation. …
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… programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the Joint BioEnergy Institute and the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI … available to JGI users. Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments to …
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… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that …
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