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… Pictured from left: [Top row]: Romy Chakraborty, Dawn Chiniquy, Anne Glaesener, Steven Hallam, Marc … Sun, Olena Vatamaniuk, Setsuko Wakao, Meng Wang, and Allison Werner.   A total of 20 proposals were selected by the …

… Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first … 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … a leaf.” The lab conducted some microscopy studies over the next couple of years, and realized it was a sulfur-oxidizing …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and … to accurately edit genomes (that is, repair gene mutations, and either delete or add genes in a precise fashion) … than the typical Cas12d proteins and were also found next to cas1 genes. Further analysis led to the …

… [Pictured from left to right are: [Above] Sara Branco, Asdrubal Burgos, Posy Busby, Hao … Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, … organisms and ecosystems. Scientists are engineering next-generation feedstocks through CRISPR-edited poplars …

… Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other omics technologies.  … The research efforts of the group have concentrated in demonstrating the power of data science in … Pavlopoulos GA et al. (2023) Unraveling the functional dark …

… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven … IMG portal for mitochondrial ribosomal RNA sequences. The next step applied metagenomic binning (grouping sequencing …

… There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their roots, creating a lively zone called the rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive … organisms (symbionts) are transmitted between host generations, researchers investigated the role that bacteria … This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed … AB in Physics, Princeton University, NJ MS in Theoretical Physics, Cornell … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, Computational Biology, UC …

… As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with … The idea is to improve the information produced in the next few decades of SIP experiments. “I’m looking forward to … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …