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… In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M University piloted an … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. … viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any given time. …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope … National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … of conifer needle microbiomes across six sites spanning a 1000km section of the Rocky Mountains. This represents the … summer project in the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program. In 2023, Shayna Bennett, a UC Merced graduate student in …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … zealexins. Even though scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. … dexterous enzymes— terpene synthases and cytochrome P450s — that catalyze multiple products, resulting in many …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … enzymes across 90 species. They queried the genomes of 15 species from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, … plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT  genes. Within the AT genes identified …

… for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … Serve the Changing Planet (download a copy at jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user … Köpke of Lanzatech are the latest additions to the now 14-member committee. Go here to view the current UEC roster. …

… from their summer experiences at the JGI Berkeley Lab offers a variety of programs to help inspire and train the next generation of … CalTeach initiative. During their time at the Joint Genome Institute, they interacted with interns from other …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … world, including 3,908 isolate reference DNA viruses and 264,413 computationally identified viral contigs. Since then, …

… Wednesday, March 18: "Genomics of Environmental Opportunism: Fungal … Workshop Steven Ahrendt presenting  Friday, March 20: JGI-EMSL Workshop: "Toward 10,000 Fungal Genomes and …

… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread …