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… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome … program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light and temperature oscillations throughout the day. … Selected Publications …

… technologies unlocking the potential of macroalgae as an environmentally sustainable and cost-effective biomass for … Selected Publications …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing … In 2014 Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a focus on adapting JGI workloads to run on supercomputing hardware and worked closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI …

… that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean occurring within the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass represents … normally craft a genetic clock based on its divergence with a  different species. However, eelgrass didn’t have a …

… payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining CRAGE with CRISPR provides researchers with a powerful addition to their toolkit to study gene … that power is poised to grow exponentially by combining it with CRISPR.  By employing CRAGE, researchers are no longer …

… researchers investigated the role that bacteria living within a host (endosymbionts) have on fungal host … was predicted to have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . … first needs to secure its own transmission before working with the host. Using the mutualistic relationship between …

… inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial … virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 … strategy of lysogeny. The ability of the virus to tag along with the host has earned this strategy a riff, developed by …

… a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue … Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study … microorganisms hold clues to processes like biodegradation, with potential applications in industry and biotechnology …

… Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome … noted, specific genes of interest could be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants … males; plant breeding experiments could be completed faster without extra crosses. The work wraps more than a decade of …

… , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the … the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their structure. … for sex determination and a shared genetic architecture with Y chromosomes in mammals: a structure that helps …