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New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake … often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the … populations. The Impact Lentinula mushrooms are white rot fungi, belonging to an elite group of decomposers that …

Congratulations to the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI … instrumental in the development of the Novel Metagenome Protein Families (NMPF) Catalog . Published in the October … the vast functional diversity of microbes by looking at protein function within them. Kyrpides and Roux also worked …

… view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks … seedlings grown in a controlled environment chamber, so the fungus could colonize the plants’ roots. Then, comparing …

… view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks … seedlings grown in a controlled environment chamber, so the fungus could colonize the plants’ roots. Then, comparing …

… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and … activated cell sorting and non-standard molecular protocols.  Finally, his team utilizes new technologies, e.g. …

A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey at Duke University and Uwe Ohler at   Humboldt Universität …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s … Sanger Institute.” Last year for the column, Woyke wrote about the research field’s move toward characterizing …

DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through … networking workshops, data carpentry hackathons, and also made new friends while working on their summer projects. … & Bikash Shrestha Project: “ Detecting Isotope Bonds in Proteins. ” Yu Lu : ”I really enjoyed meeting and getting to …

Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring … activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these experiments easier for scientists everywhere. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s … that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha …

And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out … Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …