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… Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio … Research (INRA)  proposed sequencing a reference genome for  P. pachyrhizi to develop better strategies to …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical … Mike Wilkins and his graduate student Kaela Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about … with first author Amundson in the journal Microbiome . The work builds off a proposal approved through a collaborative …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

… number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … the energy they store.      Since 2012, O’Malley has worked with the JGI to understand the enzymes these … fungi wield: the capacity to form enzyme complexes that work like assembly lines for efficiency.  In 2021, her team …

… FY 2026 DOE Metrics Sequencing Quarter Total Bases (Trillions) Operating Hours Goal  Actual Total*   Actual % of Goal … days due to reduced lab activities related to the return-to-work plan in response to the pandemic.   FY 2019 Number of … developments for improving microbial, metagenomic, or plant genome assemblies. [Download PDF] Q2 – Report on progress …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, … State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these …

… Learn more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis tools developed by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a US Department of Energy Office of …

… been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the University of Georgia, … an associate professor at the University of Georgia whose work is at the interface between biology and computer …

… interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants … temperature oscillations throughout the day. At the Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on …

… In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly … the Community Science Program . The comparative framework provided by these high quality reference genome …