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… “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 …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … change. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, …