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… “ Berkeley Lab Receives Multiple 2021 HPCwire Awards ” on the Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences site. Lawrence … of JGI and ExaBiome Project team, supported by the DOE Exascale Computing Project. The award recognized the release of MetaHipMer, an end-to-end genome assembler that …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … cucumber roots were rinsed with cold water to stimulate the release of zoospores by Olpidium . Zoospores were then … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … Neocallimastix californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the …

… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic … Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA packaging, and PRO, a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular … University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse … – present Alumni Award, MCS, University of Florida, 2024 Congressional Recognition, Women’s Services Honoree, 2022 …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user … he’s interested in finding ways to boost visibility of the CSP to encourage more plant proposals and provide feedback …

… Emma Timmins-Schiffman, Andressa M. Venturini, Valentin Waschulin, Flavia Winck Vischi, Jennifer Wisecaver, Yaqi You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution … other than photosynthesis to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two …

… of Energy user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the University of Georgia, … Go here to view the current UEC roster. The UEC serves both as a liaison and advisory body, providing input on JGI … Bik is a recipient of the Community Science Program (CSP) New Investigator call. Through membership in the UEC, …

… notable because bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … in the Mangroves The bacterium itself was discovered by Olivier Gros, a marine biology professor at the …