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Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. A 2020 Nature Genetics paper describing the …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome … works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement … Manager Sarah Sharman recently interviewed study first author Avinash Sreedasyam, a HudsonAlpha senior …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to … Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust … organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary … to be done is reducing the production of CO2 — this is the first and foremost important thing we need to do.” The study …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the … be a part of it all. Among them was Travis Lawrence , the first graduate student intern from the 2014 cohort. After …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The … compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a … ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed with two main objectives. First and foremost, it is a BGC repository that aspires to …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of … other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function … .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … observed, but to the “TACK” superphylum,” said study first author Bojk Berghuis. “This provided us with genetic …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to … known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the … Genomes Project, which aims to provide a reference genome for each of the fungal families. Researchers had access to …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have … approach to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the …