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… Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in … “Microscopic time travelers: A finely tuned, time-resolved analysis of viral and microbial communities in the Erpe …

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

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … improving bioinformatics tools that can help with dataset analysis, as well as how they can be shared with and used by … non-R1 institutions, now defined as those that don’t spend $50 million in annual research and don’t award at least 70 …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … of whole transcriptomes, and the third is determining the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

… New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the … for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … the genomes of individual organisms or environmental DNA, and then using advanced capabilities to understand …

… 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 The fungus  Mortierella … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… Before joining the JGI, he has been working on the boundary of life science and computational science with notable stops at NERSC, IMBA (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna) and the High Field MRI … 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. …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … the difficult early stages, so I can begin biological analysis of the data sooner than I anticipated.” In her … Fresno (Fall 2018) Cristhian Gutierrez Huerta (2015 undergraduate intern): Just graduated from UC Merced and …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …