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… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community composition and functional potential … chemicals and surface polymers as metabolic substrates. Microbial community composition varied across both sites and …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and …

… Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE …

… A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … M. importuna CCBAS932 from the forests of France, were sequenced and annotated by a collaborative team. The genome sequences and annotations are available on JGI’s fungal …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user … at Michigan State University. He studies fungal biodiversity, ecology, and evolution, with a focus on … worked closely with both the Fungal & Algal Program and the Microbial Program over the past decade in gene regulatory …

… 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. …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … Amplification to generate enough DNA to put on a sequencer. As previously mentioned, it’s a method that’s … assembly. So while researchers are confident all the DNA sequences came from one cell, including components like …

… just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS … Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: … on the proposal call page. Feel free to  reach out to any of them with questions. Q:  Apart from instrumental support, …

… from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a critical resource — it provides access to all of JGI’s genomic databases and tools,” noted  Kjiersten Fagnan , JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer. JGI’s Portals, including Phytozome , IMG , GOLD , …

… Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

… sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … are accessible on JGI data portals including the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, enhancing …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … and synthesis work. This is where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …