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From Competition to Cooperation
Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader … genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 mycorrhizal species include 29 …
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Charting of P. patens Reveals Accumulation of Somatic Mutations During in vitro Culture on the Scale of Natural Variation by Selfing
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Meta-omics survey of [NiFe]-hydrogenase genes fails to capture drastic variations in H2-oxidation activity measured in three soils exposed to H2
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JGI@25: The Human Genome Project, or the JGI’s Origin Story
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … help solve energy and environmental challenges.   The Human Genome Project began in 1990 when the U.S. Department of … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …
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Getting to the Bottom of Fungal Functions Across Earth’s Forests
… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … of these varied biomes; the forests share only about 20% of their fungal species. To make useful comparisons, the …
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2022 Progress Report
Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems … The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user …
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Sequencing Sphagnum Leads to Discovery of Sex Chromosomes
A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … change. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … more consistently, whereas male plants showed dramatic variation when under those same environmental stressors — …
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A Redesign for Yeast’s Genome, Chromosome by Chromosome
To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone … the goal is to create an entirely human-generated yeast genome. …
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Variation in Adult Plant Phenotypes and Partitioning among Seed and Stem-Borne Roots across Brachypodium distachyon Accessions to Exploit in Breeding Cereals for Well-Watered and Drought Environments  
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Micro-Scale Applications Group
Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of … technology in order to enhance the quality of single-cell genomes and directly link functional information with … DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling …
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Dan Rokhsar
Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …
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SPRUCE-ing Up Science
… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program, … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …
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