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This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii … works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, … switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene … for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired … Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day … I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person meetings were …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut … Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of … (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … international collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular … user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and … Google Scholar … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …

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 …

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,  … Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

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 … to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting …