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David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and … molecular mechanisms can help researchers better model global carbon and nitrogen cycling. Summary To shed light on … colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … Varga et al (2019) Megaphylogeny resolves global patterns of mushroom evolution. Nature Ecol Evol . … … Fungal & Algal Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with … understanding of carbon and other nutrient cycles on a global scale. Summary Ace Lake, located in the Vestfold … Lab). The work was enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program. For most months each year, Ace Lake is covered in …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   … deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . The study’s …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global … major oilseed crop, and important cattle feed crop,” noted David Stelly, another study co-author at Texas A&M … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

… the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the … production. Additionally, these fungi play a role in the global  carbon cycle . As decayers, Lentinula fungi access … sequencing were enabled by the Community Science Program (CSP) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions … this approach through the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP). Following that work, they partnered once …

… … DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This … to do in lab is watch our robot. So we have a very simple, programmable robot, which is essentially a little arm with a multi-channel pipette and you can write a program that tells exactly what to do. You can get these …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has desirable properties as a … complete draft genome sequence. At the time, the vital global source of both protein and oil was also the largest …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …