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A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut … culturally, and ecologically important fungi, widely prized as a culinary delicacy, but also because they influence …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially dominated Copper River Delta. They’re …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements … forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … in close algal relatives  to terrestrial plants showcases how early plants built upon an ancient genetic …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest recovers after a wildfire. The Impact Healthy …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … markers of sex enables scientists to develop molecular assays that can distinguish males and females even when …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale … joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to … Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … proposals have been accepted from 70 full submissions based on 92 letters of intent. Additionally, 40 percent of …