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… is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel … Below find a list of the first 10 researchers accepted for 2023. Proposals are accepted year-round; the next review …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … to date. This paper  is the cover article for the April 2024 issue  of  Nature Plants .  “We wanted to better …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The … of life, they tracked the evolution of 5mC pathways across 528 species. The researchers found that unlike most flowering … technologies for producing both reference genomes and epigenomics, researchers are unwrapping complex mechanisms of …

… plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative biofuels and bioproducts. This study lends insights on how the … to thrive in manmade environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo scientists and including researchers at the Joint …

… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples … discovered and characterized a novel phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed … with JGI’s help. Additionally, the Marsarchaeota comprise 20-50 percent of the iron-oxide microbial mat communities in …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as an endophyte, living … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese … from around the world. By complete sequencing of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play … of the key community participants and enabling future metagenomics studies.   …

… from their summer experiences at the JGI Berkeley Lab offers a variety of programs to help inspire and train the next generation of STEM professionals. Students can apply for internships …

… . The Science Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex … as a reference. The final sugarcane sequence generated is 382 Mb; 25,316 protein-coding gene models were predicted with …

… University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 2006) … List of pubs available on NCBI … Implementation of the Index of Cell Identity as an R package … Selected Publications … Software …