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After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in … assumed the Deputy Director of User Program position in 2021. In addition to her JGI appointment, she also holds an … The Deputy of User Programs also acts as a liaison to our partner institutions, funding agencies and the broader …

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The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of … the critical roles of metabolites in living systems, particularly as they relate to DOE missions in the … of experimental workflows and computational analysis, JGI scientists are able to link metabolic activity with gene …

In these springs, temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this … researchers from the University of Calgary and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … of single cell sequencing to assess the variation within natural microbial populations. Each of the three sequencing …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea … desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the …

Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 … Nigel Mouncey reflected on how the JGI-UC Merced Intern partnership had become a “model” of sorts at the Lab. “This … UC Merced Senior Assistant Dean and CFO of the School of Natural Sciences Ernie Costello beamed as he spoke of what …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations … a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, which particularly helps plants thrive in warm, arid environments. … led the team to identify a gene called Less Shattering 1 (SvLes1); gene editing studies led by co-first author Pu …

… cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. … the impacts of these infections on ecosystem functions. As part of efforts to characterize global microbial diversity … virocells, to better represent how infections occur in natural settings. … A portion of this research was performed …

… allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? … play key roles in global carbon cycling, are sources of natural products, and have potential as biofuel feedstocks. … all branches of eukaryotes (organisms with a nucleus). In part because of this evolutionary diversity, algal genomes …

… relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand how … samples studied by researchers came from two environments: natural forests and plantations managed through human … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). All of this information — 318 metagenomes, 98 plant transcriptomes and 314 metabolomic …