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… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior … to this, he served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread adoption …

… deciphering the complex wiring behind a city’s power grid. Just as the flow of electricity controls when and where … determines when and where genes are activated to sustain life’s processes.  Traditionally, mapping this … falling. As  published online in  Nature Plants  on July 15, researchers have developed multiplexed assays — …

… and what escapes to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous … reference fungal genome sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map microbial activity, … the soil and who made them. Based on data reported in the April issue of Soil Biology and Biochemistry , the team …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host … system to study virus-host interactions. Approximately 150 archaeal viruses had been previously identified. The JGI …

… to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined … popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to … an anaerobe revealed that the ancestor of all these groups may have been an anaerobe who relied on fermentative …

… will help solve energy and environmental challenges. The 1KFG project represents affiliations at over 180 … Spatafora and Jason Stajich from UC Riverside would focus on broad sampling of early diverging fungi, and Francis … National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRAE) focused on in-depth exploration of ecology-related groups of …

… apparent. Similarly, the microbes found in plant roots may have unknown roles. Some plants and fungi have mutually … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … toward filling gaps on the fungal Tree of Life through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Hacquard’s group had assembled …

… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one … sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In 2019, the countdown has begun to the … of the JGI and KBase in the heart of the Lab’s 200-acre campus—with the big move from leased space in Walnut Creek, …

… viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, … led the team to identify a gene called Less Shattering 1 (SvLes1); gene editing studies led by co-first author Pu … widely between crops, Kellogg added, and shattering genes may be specific to species or groups of species.  The genome …