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My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … find me. And really it was my third grade science fair project where I first looked into a microscope and just fell … it’s not that easy. There are still not that many plant genomes, certainly nowhere close to bacterial kinds of …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The …

Michelle O’Malley and Tom Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying … well as a recent discovery that turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the … (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into … Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school … cattails. In 2018, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  The Impact … structures that enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. … was done under Contract DE-AC52-07NA2734. Funding for this project was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation …

… their expertise to enhance the scientific impact of user projects, develop cutting edge approaches for and with users, and create computational tools and resources for them. Their concerted efforts help maximize the JGI’s impact in advancing …