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Gotta Catch 'Em Gall
Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that … young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and …
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JGIota: The Algae Nicknamed ‘Chlamy’
… a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha … alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ …
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Three Join the JGI User Executive Committee
… earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and … and help develop programs to increase participation from minority-serving institutions in JGI user programs. The …
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The Genome of the Acid Soil-Adapted Strain Rhizobium favelukesii OR191 Encodes Determinants for Effective Symbiotic Interaction With Both an Inverted Repeat Lacking Clade and a Phaseoloid Legume Host
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Year in Review: JGI’s 2018 Progress Report Available Now
The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable … Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and to better …
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2021 Progress Report
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The molecular dimension of microbial species: 3. Comparative genomics of Synechococcus strains with different light responses and in situ diel transcription patterns of associated putative ecotypes in the Mushroom Spring microbial mat
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the conifer needle endophyte, Phialocephala scopiformis DAOMC 229536 confirms evolutionary division within the fungal Phialocephala fortinii s.l. – Acephala appalanata species complex
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Complete genome sequence of the termite hindgut bacterium Spirochaeta coccoides type strain (SPN1T), reclassification in the genus Sphaerochaeta as Sphaerochaeta coccoides comb. nov. and emendations of the family Spirochaetaceae and the genus
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Graduate Students Get Thesis Research Opportunity at the JGI
Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE … result of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of …
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Exploring and Thinking Critically about Scientific Problems with JGI Interns
While summer interns at the JGI from multiple programs had their own goals to achieve, they constantly collaborated with each other on …
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Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1T), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov.,
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