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Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the … the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan … The class did not know at the time that the project had already received enthusiastic support from the JGI Director, …

… approach to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of … of essential genes in metabolic networks that were missed using traditional approaches. This novel form of … the realm of bioenergy optimization. Summary Life is all about balance. This study,  recently published in the  …

Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the … Summary As the planet has changed, so have plants. Curious about their ability to adapt to changing environments, … and nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeats (NLRs) —stood out for their roles. Peroxidases are enzymes …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … Lab), is to become the leading integrative genome science user facility enabling researchers to solve the world’s …

… to a pathogen. This ‘“alien’” organism — one previously unseen — is, in fact, a microscopic water mold, … ramorum (pronounced: Fy-TOFF-thor-uh ra-MOR-um) the genus in Latin translates to “plant destroyer” and it has … scores of nurseries across the nation, elevating concerns about the pathogen to an all-time high. California …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were already working on mining prokaryotic viruses together, … a lot of our efforts into the post-discovery analyses – as best we could, we tried to describe the protein domains …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors … Database (GOLD) administered by the DOE JGI. T.B.K Reddy, Kaushal‘s mentor, described his student’s contributions as … tasks we assigned.”       Click here to watch a video about the Biotech Partner summer interns at the JGI. What …

… a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . … of genes involved in signaling of gibberellin, one of the best-known plant growth hormones. One other tidbit that …

… of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … or no oxygen, life had found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation. To better understand … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …

… forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a … look like a year after a fire. It also opens questions about what the soil microbiome looks like over longer times …